Mr. Jennings. I would like to ask you from that chart, 5 of the Section 6 schools are not under the authority of one of the military agencies but rather are under the authority of local educational agencies. In those 5 situations, what degree of authority do you have over the quality of the instruction offered in those buildings or again are you merely a fiscal conduit?

Mr. STORMER. We are merely a fiscal conduit in those situations. Mr. JENNINGS. According to this chart, there are 5 schools under the authority of local education agencies.

Mr. STORMER. If I can recall them, Hanscom

Mr. JENNINGS. Dover Air Force Base, Laurence Hanscom Field, there are 2 schools there. There is Crater Lake National Park, Erie Coast Guard Station, and I guess that is 5.

Now, do the local public school districts actually operate the school in each one of those 5 situations?

Mr. STORMER. Yes, local public schools operate at Hanscom Dover, Crater Lake and Erie.

Mr. JENNINGS. You mean the Erie Coast Guard Station?

Mr. STORMER. Yes, in Erie the children are educated in the regular public schools with support provided under Section 6. Mr. JENNINGS. Do you have any reviews done at all on the quality of the education in those 5 schools?

Mr. STORMER. We have not reviewed the education in terms of quality of program, curricula, no.

Mr. JENNINGS. So you are providing, for instance for the Dover Air Force Base, $2 million a year and you have not looked at the quality of the curriculum being offered?

Mr. STORMER. Let me back off a little bit on that and say we do not evaluate the curriculum per se. We have had discussions relative to the offerings but principally that school district is contracted with to offer the administration and supervision of the school that is situated on Dover Air Force Base. We have had discussions with respect to whether their offerings are comparable with the offerings within the Caesar-Rodney school district, but we have not exercised any control.

Mr. JENNINGS. What is the nature of those discussions? Are they on paper?

Mr. STORMER. Portions of them are.

Mr. JENNINGS. I think it would be helpful if you could include some of them in the record. I think there would be a concern on the part of Members of Congress that if they are providing $2 million to a local school district to operate a school, that there be some check somewhere along the line on what is happening with that money, not just in fiscal terms in the sense that it goes into the budget of that school but in the sense of what is being offered in that building.

Mr. STORMER. I am not implying that it is solely on a per pupil basis. There are reviews done by our program officers of the pupilteacher ratios. There are reviews of the subject offerings in terms of the numbers and type of subject offerings. But the quality, as to whether or not it is a quality offering, there is no judgment made there. There is a judgment made whether those subject areas that are necessary for the education of these secondary pupils, and I am

saying secondary pupils at this point, whether those subject offerings are made.

But in terms of the exact quality of those subject offerings, no. Mr. JENNINGS. It would be helpful to include in the record the subject of those offerings and the pupil-teacher ratios.

Thank you.

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In their letter of proposal, the Caesar Rodney School District agrees to provide to the children residing on Dover Air Force Base an educational program comparable to those of the surrounding communities in Delaware. Their program provides normal elementary educational opportunities including music, physical education, art and library services for children in Kindergarten through grade six; and normal secondary educational opportunities including academic, general, vocational, scientific curricula, guidance, extra curricular, library and art activities for children in grades seven through twelve. Because of limited school faciities on-base, the school district provides education to approximately 100 children on a tuition basis in off-base facilities.

Pupil-teacher ratios are maintained in accordance with Delaware law: one teacher for every twenty-five pupils in grades one to six and one teacher for every twenty pupils in grades seven through twelve; kindergarten teachers are provided on the basis of one teacher per forty-eight students on a half day session. The number of pupils per teacher in the on-base schools is usually smaller because of a more limited membership.

Based on a memorandum for the record the following concerns were expressed by members of the Dover Air Force Base PTA in our discussions with them on March 9 and May 20, 1977:

1. The effect of the "Governor's Proposed Education Cuts" on the Dover Section 6 schools; the possibility of lowering present standards.

2. No library services in the summer.

3. The need for more enrichment funds for intermural sports and curriculumrelated field trips.

4. School crossing guards. Responsibility for providing guards has been assumed by PTA because of a jurisdictional dispute over the Lebanon Road school crossing, the scene of an accident involving an elementary pupil. Lebanon Road is a State highway running through the base; neither the Air Force police nor other security forces in the Dover area have jurisdiction. Crossing guards now being funded by PTA which could be held liable for any accident.

5. Inadequate cafeteria facilities.

6. Local people are unaware that Section 6 funds the on-base schools which results in concerns that their tax dollars are being stretched. For better public relations, the Dover AFB PTA would like representation on the school board of the Caesar Rodney School District.

7. They feel comparability is exclusive to the Caesar Rodney School District and want more comparability with other Delaware school districts as regards subject offerings. Even Caesar Rodney has more subject offerings than those available in the Section 6 high school. They feel that the needs of the handicapped have not been met sufficiently.

We have asked the Air Force for assistance in evaluating these concerns and in implementing any corrective action that is determined jointly.

I would like to provide more details regarding some of the other LEA arrangements. At Hanscom, the Lincoln Public Schools (the district in which the base is located) provide elementary education in the on-base schools; they also share some of their own facilities. Section 6 provides the full cost to Lincoln for educating elementary children residing on Hanscom. They will provide no less in the on-base schools than their own high standard of elementary education. Lincoln does not have a high school. High school students residing on Hanscom are educated by and in the Bedford Public Schools with support provided under Section 3. Bedford is willing to educate these students even though Hanscom is not located within their school district. But because the students do not live within their district, they are not able to provide transportation.

Section 6 in this instance, provides only transportation costs to Bedford.

Elementary and high school students residing in Crater Lake National Park are educated in the regular public schools of Klamath County, Oregon, with full tuition costs provided by Section 6.

Mr. CORRADA. Dr. Stormer, the committee would like to have the report you mentioned that would be available by August 30th when that is available. Several members of the committee would like to submit written questions to the panel or some of the members of the panel.

Without objection the record shall remain open to receive these. Mr. CORRADA. Next Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. we shall resume the hearings on Impact Aid.

The subcommittee will now recess until such time. Thank you very much.

[Whereupon, at 12:10 p.m. the subcommittee recessed, to reconvene at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, June 28, 1977.]

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