§923 Space-available Enrollment of Students; Tuition

Summary

The Defense Department can let children who are not normally eligible enroll in its schools if there is room. The Secretary of Defense sets the tuition for those students. That tuition must be at least enough to cover the average cost of enrolling them. The money goes back to the school system to help pay those costs. The Secretary can make rules about which extra groups may enroll, set priorities, and can waive tuition for some groups. The rules must treat two groups of reserve members’ children the same for tuition: children of reservists ordered to active duty under section 12301 or 12302 of title 10 who were ordered from inside the United States (not Alaska or Hawaii) and are serving outside the United States or in Alaska or Hawaii, and children of reservists ordered to active duty under those sections who were ordered from outside the United States (or in Alaska or Hawaii) and are serving outside the United States or in Alaska or Hawaii. The Secretary may also allow certain overseas children to enroll in overseas schools. This covers children of U.S. officers and employees stationed overseas (not including civilian sponsors under section 932(2) of this title), children of contractors working for the U.S. overseas, other U.S. citizens or foreign nationals when it is in the national interest, and children of American Red Cross employees who work full time for the Armed Forces and live where a Defense Dependents’ Education System school serves the area. The Secretary may not waive tuition for those overseas children.