§928 — Title 20 Education | U.S. Code

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The Director must set up an advisory committee for every school that serves military dependents. The committee will help the principal or superintendent run the school, can suggest changes to the curriculum and budget, and will advise the local military commander about education problems. If a base or overseas area has more than one school, the Director must instead make one committee for that installation or area to advise the commander. Each committee must have the same number of parents and school employees and may include a student when appropriate. There must also be one nonvoting member picked by the employees’ bargaining representative. Except for that nonvoting member, committee members are chosen by adults who live in the area served. The Secretary of Defense must write the rules for who can run and how elections work. Committee members are not paid.

Title 20, §928

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(a)(1)The Director shall provide for the establishment of an advisory committee for each school in the defense dependents’ education system. An advisory committee for a school shall advise the principal or superintendent of the school with respect to the operation of the school, may make recommendations with respect to curriculum and budget matters, and, except as provided under paragraph (2), shall advise the local military commander with respect to problems concerning dependents’ education within the jurisdiction of the commander. The membership of each such advisory committee shall include an equal number of parents of students enrolled in the school and of employees working at the school and, when appropriate, may include a student enrolled in the school. The membership of each such advisory committee shall also include one nonvoting member designated by the organization recognized as the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees working at the school.

(2)In the case of any military installation or overseas area where there is more than one school in the defense dependents’ education system, the Director shall provide for the establishment of an advisory committee for such military installation or overseas area to advise the local military commander with respect to problems concerning dependents’ education within the jurisdiction of the commander.

(b)Except in the case of a nonvoting member designated under the last sentence of subsection (a)(1), members of a school advisory committee established under this section shall be elected by individuals of voting age residing in the area to be served by the advisory committee. The Secretary of Defense shall by regulation prescribe the qualifications for election to an advisory committee and procedures for conducting elections of advisory committee members.

(c)Members of school advisory committees established under this section shall serve without pay.

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1985—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 99–145, § 1204(b)(2)(A), included as member of the advisory committee the designee of the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–145, § 1204(b)(2)(B), (C), substituted “Except in the case of a nonvoting member designated under the last sentence of subsection (a)(1), members” for “Members” and “The Secretary of Defense” for “The Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense,”. 1979—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 96–88, § 508(j)(1), substituted “parents” for “representatives of sponsors”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–88, § 508(j)(2), empowered the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to prescribe election qualifications and procedures in regard to advisory committees rather than vesting such power in the Secretary of Defense exclusively.

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of 1979 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–88, effective May 4, 1980, with specified exceptions, see section 601 of Pub. L. 96–88, set out as an

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note under section 3401 of this title. Termination of Advisory CommitteesAdvisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§928 School advisory committees

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Title 20, §928

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