By Orlando Montoya, GPB NEWS
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Two Georgia Army bases are part of a nationwide study that could expand military charter schools.
Sgt. 1st Class Charles C. Harris, a maintenance supervisor with Company B, 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, answers a student’s question, Dec. 14, 2011, during a holiday reading program at Liberty Elementary, in Midway, Ga. Batallion soldiers read Christmas stories to the students as part of the battalion’s adopt-a-school community outreach program. (photo US Army/Sgt. Mary Katzenberger, 4IBCT, 3ID Public Affairs)
The Defense Department is re-thinking education for military children.
About 23,000 students attend schools run by the military at bases in the 50 states.
The study will take into account test results, graduation rates and parent and community comments to decide which schools need a big makeover.
Martha Brown of the Department of Defense Education Activity says some schools could remain as they are or be turned over to be run by local districts.
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