Defense Department Schools Memo: Furlough Days Nixed For This School Year
For the last few months, teachers in America's military schools have scrambled to understand how across-the-board cuts to the Department of Defense, or sequestration, would affect their schools.
Like other military employees, teachers expected furloughs. Parents wondered whether there would be school on Fridays or doubled up classrooms. The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which administers the schools, had no solid answers until now.
On Thursday, in a memo obtained by The Huffington Post, DoDEA Director Marilee Fitzgerald wrote that there would be no furlough days for the remainder of the school year. Frank O'Gara, DoDEA's communications chief, confirmed that the memo was sent.
Since the DOD delayed making its furlough determinations, Fitzgerald wrote, there will be "no furlough days for
Like other military employees, teachers expected furloughs. Parents wondered whether there would be school on Fridays or doubled up classrooms. The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which administers the schools, had no solid answers until now.
On Thursday, in a memo obtained by The Huffington Post, DoDEA Director Marilee Fitzgerald wrote that there would be no furlough days for the remainder of the school year. Frank O'Gara, DoDEA's communications chief, confirmed that the memo was sent.
Since the DOD delayed making its furlough determinations, Fitzgerald wrote, there will be "no furlough days for