DoD to Cancel Remote Home Schooling

The Department of Defense Education Activity will discontinue its Remote Location Home School Program beginning in school year 2007-2008, DODEA officials announced Jan. 25. "We understand this unique program is valued by our families," said Joseph D. Tafoya, DODEA director. Unfortunately, with the funding allocation and grants expiring at the end of school year 2006-2007, we will have to discontinue it, he said. DODEA officials manage the education programs for Defense Department family members who would otherwise not have access to a high-quality public education. Although operating a home-schooling program is outside their directed mission, officials said, the DODEA staff has administered it since school year 2001-2002, when the agency received the first in a series of unsolicited allocations and grants to support the program.