[Peace-discuss] Schools must turn in students to military recruiters

[Peter Miller]

In January of this year, the president signed the re-autorization of the 
ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), the nation's main federal 
public education bill, and it included a number of un-welcome items.  The 
notice below came from the Illinois State Board of Education and the US 
Dept of Education.

-Peter


>Please read all of this carefully and share with any appropriate 
>individuals, agencies, groups, organizations and/or your membership.
>
>Section 9528 of the No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to provide 
>information on students to military recruiters.   We have been  working 
>with the Department of Defense for a number of months now on joint 
>guidance to schools.  Attached are a joint letter from Secretaries Paige 
>and Rumsfeld, the guidance, and model notification. (The model notice 
>should not be merged with the guidance because it needs to stand alone and 
>will be used year after year.  To merge it messes up the footnote numbers.)
>
>.
>Generally speaking Local Education Agencies (LEAs) that are recipients of 
>ESEA funds must provide, upon request, students' name, address, and phone 
>number to military recruiters. Typically, recruiters are asking for 
>information on juniors and seniors. If the LEA has an effective "directory 
>information" policy under FERPA, and those three items are included in the 
>FERPA "directory information" notification, then the school must provide 
>this information to recruiters - and may do so without doing a specific 
>notice to parents. On the other hand, if the LEA does not have a 
>"directory information" policy and/or does not designate any of those 
>three items as "directory information," then the LEA would have to do a 
>separate, specific notice to parents (presumably of the juniors and 
>seniors) and allow the parents (or students 18 or older) to opt-out.
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