A committee report accompanying a national defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2022 includes a provision for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the Department of Defense's (DOD's) payroll system for overseas DOD Education Activity employees. This report: (1) describes the status of DOD's efforts to address auditors' prior…

This booklet contains a report on a joint committee hearing on the Overseas Teachers Act of 1987 (H.R. 3424). The bill provides that anyone who is hired overseas (known as a local hire) in the Department of Defense Dependents' Schools (DODDS) before enactment of the bill and who has completed or completes three years of teaching will qualify for…

This report presents a summary of the Committee on Education and Labor action on H.R. 3424, the "Overseas Teacher Act of 1988." H.R. 3424 requires the establishment of a uniform system of filling vacant teaching positions in overseas schools operated by the Department of Defense. It principally addresses two issues: (1) the hiring of teachers; and…

This document is a transcript of hearings held before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, into a bill requiring that allowances available to teachers in the Department of Defense Overseas Dependents' Schools be provided without regard to the location at…

This report summarizes the 1988 study of Overseas Department of Defense Dependents' (DODD) Schools. The study assessed the quality of education, organizational structure, drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs, and teacher evaluation systems by sampling 10 schools located in the Philippines and by interviewing concerned administrators in the…

This document contains the text of hearings on the hiring and benefits granted to teachers hired to teach United States' dependents overseas. Comparison is made in the testimony between those teachers hired in the United States and sent abroad and those hired abroad with special regard to the unequal benefits awarded to each. Several…

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 directed the U.S. General Accounting Office to determine whether the Department of Defense (DOD) overseas teachers' compensation package is adequate to recruit and retain qualified teachers. The Act also required GAO to determine whether or not any revisions to the law governing DOD…

An analysis of teenage unemployment indicates that it is very high and endangers the future of some of the young. In 1975 the unemployment rate for teenagers, ages 16-19, was 19.9%. For nonwhite teenagers, it was even higher (36.9%). Teenagers accounted for more than 20% of the total number of unemployed, but less than 19% of the total labor…

Testimony on the bill to amend the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act (1984) is presented. Statements are recorded from: (1) Representative Mary Rose Oakar (Ohio); (2) Keith Geiger, vice president, National Education Association; (3) William L. Smith, Director, Administrative Resource Management Services, U.S.…