Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
Moving this summer? If your NOAA kids are school-aged, you should know about the new Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. While the armed services have taken great leaps to ease the transition of personnel, their spouses and most importantly children, much remains to be done at the state and local levels to ensure that the children of military families are afforded the same opportunities for educational success as other children and are not penalized or delayed in achieving their educational goals by inflexible administrative and bureaucratic practices.
Specific impacts on military children include:
- Transfer of records
- Course sequencing
- Graduation requirements
- Exclusion from extra-curricular activities
- Redundant or missed entrance/exit testing
- Kindergarten and first grade entrance age variations
- Power of custodial parents while parents are deployed
The new Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children addresses these issues, as well as compact enforcement, administration, finances, communications, data sharing and training.