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WASHINGTON (July 10, 2019) The deadline for Sailors who have over 16 years of service to transfer their Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits to dependents has been extended to Jan. 12, 2020 based on recently revised guidance issued by the Department of Defense (DoD). (U.S. Navy graphic/Released)
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Post-9/11 GI Bill Education Benefits Transfer Deadline Extended for Members with 16 Years of Service

The deadline for Sailors who have over 16 years of service to transfer their Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits to dependents has been extended to Jan. 12, 2020 based on recently revised guidance issued by the Department of Defense (DoD).
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Scholarships for Military Children: 500 students earn grants for 2019-2020 school year

FORT LEE, Va. – Thanks to the Scholarships for Military Children program, 500 students from military families were each awarded a $2000 scholarship grant for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year.
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Battle of Gettysburg thank you note

First of all, I'd like to say thank you very much for the Fourth of July fireworks. It really means alot to me, because I know that it was very expensive, and I thank you again for doing this much for us.
Hayden Lee, 9, performs at Kubasaki High School on Camp Foster, Okinawa, June 12, 2019. CARLOS VAZQUEZ/STARS AND STRIPES
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DODEA piano prodigy goes from third grade to Carnegie Hall with a little help from YouTube

A 9-year-old piano prodigy on Okinawa has already wowed an audience at New York’s Carnegie Hall, despite spending only two years seriously studying the instrument.
Sophia Adams, a senior at Naples Middle High School, is recognized as a U.S. presidential scholar on June 4, 2019 during a ceremony at the Navy Support Site in Naples, Italy. Sailors with at least 10 years of service and are unable to reenlist have until July 11 to transfer their Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits to family members. DONAVAN K. PATUBO/U.S. NAVY
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Deadline looms for certain servicemembers to transfer education benefits to family

Starting later next month, some mid-career and senior servicemembers will be unable to transfer their Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits to family members.
German immersion teacher Gabriele Arseneault talks to Landstuhl Elementary/Middle School students about a book her class read together on the first day of the 2018-19 school year. WILL MORRIS/STARS AND STRIPES
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Foreign-language, science, culinary arts among DODEA courses on chopping block

Here are some specifics about the Department of Defense Education Activity's plan to tweak staffing standards, consolidate classes with low attendance and shed more than 300 “excess” positions. The move was intended to free up funds for school needs such as infrastructure from a budget top-heavy with payroll expenses. The cuts will take...
High school students wait for the school bus in the Ikego housing area near Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. CAITLIN DOORNBOS/STARS AND STRIPES
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Planned course cuts, bigger classes at schools for military kids frustrate families, teachers

Cuts and consolidations of smaller classes at base schools worldwide have students, parents and teachers angry as electives, languages and some core classes are being cut to save costs.
Candace Balfour and Sgt. 1st Class Edward Balfour are pictured with their children in their home at Robinson Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. Bryson Washington sits on the floor with a book. The Balfours said they were were frustrated and angry at the way the military's school system handled a finding of emotional abuse substantiated by the Family Advocacy Program against Bryson's former teacher. JOHN VANDIVER/STARS AND STRIPES
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When DODEA investigates its teachers for bullying, parents say they’re left in the dark

<p>The special education teacher thrust a mirror in her student&rsquo;s face as he sobbed.</p>
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As junior year ends, excitement & worries about the future

I can easily deem my junior year of high school as one of the most hectic times of my life. Many of my peers may be feeling the same pressure as we near our last year and will soon be forced to make decisions about our impending futures.
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USO Hansen to host Kid’s Fleet Week June 27

USO Camp Hansen is thrilled to host our first ever Kid’s Fleet Week in conjunction with our monthly L.E.A.P program. L.E.A.P unifies our service members and families through learning, engaging, activity and play, and is providing young Marines and kids with the opportunity to connect and create with one another.
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A Repeat Just as Sweet for Military Youth of the Year

"Be 100 percent yourself. Don’t try to be anyone else." Those were the words of advice that Janasia Underwood, then a junior at Chesapeake's Western Branch High School and the 2018 South East Regional Military Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America promoted to her peers almost a year ago.
Eddy Melendez, (center) an eighth-grader at Lester Middle School, represented all of the Department of Defense Education Activity at the National Geography Bee in Washington D.C, smiles for a photo with his mother, Sandra Melendez, (left) and his father, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Cristhian Melendez, (right) June 6, 2019 on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brennan J. Beauton)
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Lester Middle School student represents DoDEA at National Geography Bee in Washington, D.C.

Lester Middle School eighth-grader Eddy Melendez, 14, represented all of the Department of Defense Education Activity at the National Geography Bee May 19-22 at the National Geographic Society Headquarters in Washington D.C.
Mika Takemura, a teacher at Mekaru Elementary School on Okinawa, interacts with a Kadena Elementary School student during a workshop to enhance the English curriculum taught in Okinawa schools at Kadena, May 24, 2019. (CARLOS VAZQUEZ/STARS AND STRIPES)
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DODEA teachers, students on Okinawa help Japanese educators prep for English curriculum change

Teachers from the Department of Defense Education Activity recently provided English language training to Japanese educators from around Okinawa who are preparing for a mandatory curriculum change in 2020 throughout Japan.
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (March 10, 2018) A recruit division commander at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes oversees recruits performing physical exercises during an intensive exercise in a berthing compartment at the Navy's only boot camp. (U.S. Navy photo by Austin Rooney)
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Navy Launches Advancement-to-Position Program

Navy announced the creation of a program with an advancement incentive to fill priority recruiter and recruit division commander (RDC) billets June 3, in NAVADMIN 122/19.
Seoul American students perform the U.S. and Korean national anthems during a closing ceremony for the school complex on Yongsan Garrison, South Korea, Monday, June 3, 2019. (DAVE ORNAUER/STARS AND STRIPES)
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‘We will always be Falcon family’: Yongsan bids farewell to Seoul American school complex after 60 years

Students, teachers, administrators, community and alumni from as far back as the 1970s gathered on Monday to bid farewell to Seoul American elementary, middle and high schools.
U.S. and Japanese elementary school teachers participate in group activities during We Can bilateral training at the Ryukyu Middle School, Kadena Air Base, Japan, May 24, 2019. The training is in support of Japan’s Ministry of Education’s mandatory English curriculum roll-out for 5th and 6th grade students. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Peter Reft)
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Japanese & U.S. Teachers Boost Bilateral Future

Upon first glance, a first-time observer might think this colorfully-dressed group of fully-grown adults are teaming up for a children’s contest to win prizes and candy, with huge smiles on their faces and laughter filling the ears.