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20 U.S.C. § 7703c — Plan and authority to assist local educational agencies experiencing growth in enrollment due to force structure changes, relocation of military units, or base closures and realignments
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**(a) Plan required** Not later than January 1, 2007, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report setting forth a plan to provide assistance to local educational agencies that experience growth in the enrollment of military dependent students as a result of any of the following events:
(1) Force structure changes.
(2) The relocation of a military unit.
(3) The closure or realignment of military installations pursuant to defense base closure and realignment under the base closure laws.
**(b) Elements** The report required by subsection (a), and each updated report required by subsection (c),11 See References in Text note below. shall include the following:
(1) An identification, current as of the date of the report, of the total number of military dependent students who are anticipated to be arriving at or departing from military installations as a result of any event described in subsection (a), including—
(A) an identification of the military installations affected by such arrivals and departures;
(B) an estimate of the number of such students arriving at or departing from each such installation; and
(C) the anticipated schedule of such arrivals and departures.
(2) Such recommendations as the Office of Economic Adjustment of the Department of Defense considers appropriate for means of assisting affected local educational agencies in accommodating increases in enrollment of military dependent students as a result of any such event.
(3) A plan for outreach to be conducted to affected local educational agencies, commanders of military installations, and members of the Armed Forces and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense regarding information on the assistance to be provided under the plan under subsect
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**(a) Plan required** Not later than January 1, 2007, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report setting forth a plan to provide assistance to local educational agencies that experience growth in the enrollment of military dependent students as a result of any of the following events:
(1) Force structure changes.
(2) The relocation of a military unit.
(3) The closure or realignment of military installations pursuant to defense base closure and realignment under the base closure laws.
**(b) Elements** The report required by subsection (a), and each updated report required by subsection (c),11 See References in Text note below. shall include the following:
(1) An identification, current as of the date of the report, of the total number of military dependent students who are anticipated to be arriving at or departing from military installations as a result of any event described in subsection (a), including—
(A) an identification of the military installations affected by such arrivals and departures;
(B) an estimate of the number of such students arriving at or departing from each such installation; and
(C) the anticipated schedule of such arrivals and departures.
(2) Such recommendations as the Office of Economic Adjustment of the Department of Defense considers appropriate for means of assisting affected local educational agencies in accommodating increases in enrollment of military dependent students as a result of any such event.
(3) A plan for outreach to be conducted to affected local educational agencies, commanders of military installations, and members of the Armed Forces and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense regarding information on the assistance to be provided under the plan under subsection (a).
**(c) Transition of military dependents among local educational agencies**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall work collaboratively with the Secretary of Education in any efforts to ease the transitions of military dependent students from Department of Defense dependent schools to other schools and among schools of local educational agencies.
(2) The Secretary of Defense may use funds of the Department of Defense Education Activity for the following purposes:
(A) To share expertise and experience of the Activity with local educational agencies as military dependent students make the transitions described in paragraph (1), including transitions resulting from the closure or realignment of military installations under a base closure law, global rebasing, and force restructuring.
(B) To provide grant assistance programs for local educational agencies with military dependent students undergoing the transitions described in paragraph (1), including programs on the following:
(i) Access to virtual and distance learning capabilities and related applications.
(ii) Training for teachers.
(iii) Academic strategies to increase academic achievement.
(iv) Curriculum development.
(v) Support for practices that minimize the impact of transition and deployment.
(vi) Other appropriate services to improve the academic achievement of such students.
**(d) Definitions** In this section:
(1) The term “base closure law” has the meaning given that term in [section 101 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section101&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The term “local educational agency” has the meaning given that term in [section 7713(9) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section7713/9&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) The term “military dependent students” refers to—
(A) elementary and secondary school students who are dependents of members of the Armed Forces;
(B) elementary and secondary school students who are dependents of civilian employees of the Department of Defense; and
(C) elementary and secondary school students who are dependents of personnel who are not members of the Armed Forces or civilian employees of the Department of Defense but who are employed on Federal property.
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For purposes of this subchapter:
(1) **Armed Forces** — The term “Armed Forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
(2) **Average per-pupil expenditure** — The term “average per-pupil expenditure” means—
(A) the aggregate current expenditures of all local educational agencies in the State; divided by
(B) the total number of children in average daily attendance for whom such agencies provided free public education.
(3) **Construction** — The term “construction” means—
(A) the preparation of drawings and specifications for school facilities;
(B) erecting, building, acquiring, altering, remodeling, repairing, or extending school facilities;
(C) inspecting and supervising the construction of school facilities; and
(D) debt service for such activities.
(4) **Current expenditures** — The term “current expenditures” means expenditures for free public education, including expenditures for administration, instruction, attendance and health services, pupil transportation services, operation and maintenance of plant, fixed charges, and net expenditures to cover deficits for food services and student body activities, but does not include expenditures for community services, capital outlay, and debt service, or any expenditures made from funds awarded under part A of subchapter I. The determination of whether an expenditure for the replacement of equipment is considered a current expenditure or a capital outlay shall be determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as determined by the State.
(5) **Federal property**
(A) *In general* — Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) through (F), the term “Federal property” means real property that is not subject to taxation by any State or any political subdivisi
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**(a) Assistance to schools with significant numbers of military dependent students**
(1) **Assistance authorized** — The Secretary of Defense shall provide financial assistance to an eligible local educational agency described in paragraph (2) if, without such assistance, the local educational agency will be unable (as determined by the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Secretary of Education) to provide the students in the schools of the local educational agency with a level of education that is equivalent to the minimum level of education available in the schools of the other local educational agencies in the same State.
(2) **Eligible local educational agencies** — A local educational agency is eligible for assistance under this subsection for a fiscal year if at least 20 percent (as rounded to the nearest whole percent) of the students in average daily attendance in the schools of the local educational agency during the preceding school year were military dependent students counted under [section 7703(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section7703/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Assistance to schools with enrollment changes due to base closures, force structure changes, or force relocations**
(1) **Assistance authorized** — To assist communities in making adjustments resulting from changes in the size or location of the Armed Forces, the Secretary of Defense shall provide financial assistance to an eligible local educational agency described in paragraph (2) if, during the period between the end of the school year preceding the fiscal year for which the assistance is authorized and the beginning of the school year immediately preceding that school year, the local educational agency had (as dete
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**(a)** On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year. Each budget shall include a budget message and summary and supporting information. The President shall include in each budget the following:
(1) information on activities and functions of the Government.
(2) when practicable, information on costs and achievements of Government programs.
(3) other desirable classifications of information.
(4) a reconciliation of the summary information on expenditures with proposed appropriations.
(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations the President decides are necessary to support the Government in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year.
(6) estimated receipts of the Government in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year under—
(A) laws in effect when the budget is submitted; and
(B) proposals in the budget to increase revenues.
(7) appropriations, expenditures, and receipts of the Government in the prior fiscal year.
(8) estimated expenditures and receipts, and appropriations and proposed appropriations, of the Government for the current fiscal year.
(9) balanced statements of the—
(A) condition of the Treasury at the end of the prior fiscal year;
(B) estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the current fiscal year; and
(C) estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted if financial proposals in the budget are adopted.
(10) essential information about the debt of the Government.
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 7703c
1 See References in Text note below.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2015 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 114–95 effective Dec. 10, 2015,
except with respect to certain noncompetitive pro-
grams and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub.
L. 114–95, set out as a note under section 6301 of this
title.
PLAN
AND AUTHORITY TO ASSIST LOCAL EDUCATIONAL
AGENCIES
EXPERIENCING
GROWTH
IN
ENROLLMENT
DUE TO FORCE STRUCTURE CHANGES, RELOCATION OF
MILITARY UNITS, OR BASE CLOSURES
AND REALIGN-
MENTS
Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 572(b), Dec. 23, 2016,
130 Stat. 2141, as amended by Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title
V, § 552(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1401, formerly set out
as a note under this section, was transferred and is set
out as a note under section 7703c of this title.
Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, § 574, Oct. 17, 2006, 120
Stat. 2226, as amended by Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title
V, § 573, Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 120; Pub. L. 110–417, [div.
A], title V, § 553, Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4469; Pub. L.
112–81, div. A, title V, § 573, Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1427;
Pub. L. 114–92, div. A, title X, § 1072(h), Nov. 25, 2015, 129
Stat. 995; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 572(a), Dec.
23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2141; Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title V,
§ 552(a), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1401, formerly set out as
a note under this section, was transferred to section
7703c of this title.
§ 7703c. Plan and authority to assist local edu-
cational agencies experiencing growth in en-
rollment due to force structure changes, relo-
cation of military units, or base closures and
realignments
(a) Plan required
Not later than January 1, 2007, the Secretary
of Defense shall submit to the congressi
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