Section 6 Schools in Six States: Eleven Case Studies of Transfer Issues

摘要

This Note contains 11 case studies examining the factors affecting possibletransfer of the federally run Section 6 schools to state and local responsibility. Financed and operated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Section 6 schools date back to a 1950 Public Law which enables the federal government to operate schools on military bases in communities that in the past were judged unable to provide suitable education to base children or that are prohibited by state law from expending tax revenue on base children's education. Located on 18 military bases in the United States and Puerto Rico, the Section 6 schools enrolled approximately 36,000 dependents in FY 1987, at a cost to the federal government of approximately $138 million. During the past several years, elements of the federal government recommended transferring the 17 Section 6 school systems located in the United States as both a budget-saving action and on the philosophical grounds that the federal government should not be running local schools. In 1986, Congress mandated that the Department of Defense develop a plan for the orderly transfer of the schools, not later than 1990.