[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR69.3]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
 
PART 69--SCHOOL BOARDS FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DOMESTIC DEPENDENT 
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 69.3  Definitions.

    (a) Arrangements. Actions taken by the Secretary of Defense to 
provide a free public education to dependent children under 10 U.S.C. 
2164 through DoD DDESS arrangements or DoD DDESS special arrangements:
    (1) DDESS arrangement. A school operated by the Department of 
Defense under 10 U.S.C. 2164 and 32 CFR 345 to provide a free public 
education for eligible children.
    (2) DDESS special arrangement. An agreement, under 10 U.S.C. 2164, 
between the Secretary of Defense, or designee, and a local public 
education agency whereby a school or a school system operated by the 
local public education agency provides educational services to eligible 
dependent children of U.S. military personnel and federally employed 
civilian personnel. Arrangements result in partial or total Federal 
funding to the local public education agency for the educational 
services provided.
    (b) Parent. The biological father or mother of a child when parental 
rights have not been legally terminated; a person who, by order of a 
court of competent jurisdiction, has been declared the father or mother 
of a child by adoption; the legal guardian of a child; or a person in 
whose household a child resides, provided that such person stands in 
loco parentis to that child and contributes at least one-half of the 
child's support.

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