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Petty Officer Quinn Lyton:
This is News Plus. The Department of Defense
Education Activity intends for its five-year Community Strategic
Plan to improve the way education practices were conducted in
the past. DoDEAâs director says the best educational practices
happen at the school level where parents, teachers, and administrators
work together.
Dr. Joseph Tafoya:
I think in the past few years there was too much of a tendency
to run these programs out of headquarters and it's my goal and
my direction that, in fact, that these resources be placed out
there in the field.
Lyton: DoDEA
has already put more resources in the field in Europe. The eight
school districts there have been re-organized to six this year.
Tafoya: Through
that they've generated 45 positions and they're putting those
positions back in the schools as middle-grade gifted teachers,
teachers that teach gifted kids in the middle grades. They're
funding nurses now in every school.
Lyton: He
says the Pacific theatre is different with only three school
districts, but they're also looking to make changes there as
well.
Tafoya: We're
working to provide in headquarters some ways to address their
staffing needs so they, too, can have those same kinds of things,
because we want equity across the system.
