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Offices.

Reports to Congress.

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978

(5) have authority to arrange for inservice and other training programs for employees in the defense dependents' education system, and (6) perform such other functions as may be required or delegated by the Secretary of Defense or the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics. (d)(1) The Director shall establish appropriate regional or area offices for the Office of Dependents' Education in order to provide for thorough and efficient administration of the defense dependents' education system. (2) Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of th's Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress a report (A) describing the organization of the Office of Dependents' Education in accordance with paragraph (1), (B) describing the assignment of personnel to the central office of the Office of Dependents' Education and to such regional or area offices as are established pursuant to paragraph (1), and (C) detailing the personnel requirements of the defense dependents' education system. Whenever the Office of Dependents' Education is reorganized after the submission of the report required under the preceding sentence, the Secretary of Defense shall submit an additional report to the Congress describing the reorganization. (3) Subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Dependents' Education is authorized an appropriate number of civilian employees in its central office and such regional or area office as are established pursuant to paragraph (1). TUITION-PAYING

Enrollment authorization.

20 USC 923.

Payment, rate.

Regulations.

STUDENTS

SEC. 1404. (a) Subject to subsection (b) and in accordance with regulations issued under subsection (c), the Director may authorize the enrollment in a school of the defense dependents' education system of a child not otherwise eligible to enroll in such a school if and to the extent that there is space available for such child in the school. (b)(1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (c), any child permitted to enroll in a school of the defense dependents' education system under this section shall be required to pay tuition at a rate determined by the Secretary of Defense, which shall not be less than the rate necessary to defray the average cost of the enrollment of children in the system under this section. (2) Amounts received under paragraph (1) shall be available to the defense dependents' education system to assist in defraying the cost of enrollment of children in the system under this section. (c) The Secretary of Defense may by regulation identify classes of children who shall be eligible to enroll in schools of the defense dependents' education system under this section if and to the extent that there is space available, establish priorities among such classes, waive the tuition requirement of subsection (b)(1) with respect to any such class, and issue such other regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section. A N N U A L EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT

20 USC 924.

SEC. 1405. (a) The Director shall assess each year the performance of the defense dependents' education system in providing an education of high quality to children enrolled in the system. Such assessment may include the use of educational assessment measures and such other

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