REPROGRAMING OF FUNDS AND RESTORATION OF PERSONNEL Increased logistical and personnel costs require the reprograming of funds within dependents schools. As a result, approximately 389 fewer personnel were employed. The restoration of these personnel for fiscal year 1972 will be offset due to a reduction of personnel in the Pacific area. However, the net effect is a requirement for $3.5 million. TUITION FOR STUDENTS IN LOCATIONS WHERE THERE ARE NO DEFENSE SCHOOLS An amount of $0.5 million is required to pay the increased cost of tuition for sending students to schools in those locations where the Department of Defense does not operate any schools. INTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES An amount of $0.4 million is included in the budget to finance the interschool activities program from appropriated funds. Included in this item would be the procurement of equipment, transportation costs, officiating fees, et cetera, for athletic, music, science, and debating groups. This is a normal activity in school budgets at home. PARAPROFESSIONAL SCHOOL AIDS Funds in the amount of $1.2 million are required to provide paraprofessional school aides for teachers in each kindergarten and special education class. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS To compensate for other price increases related to supplies and equipment, transportation, rent, and utilities, custodial services, real property maintenance, permanent change of station (PCS), et cetera, $1.8 million is required. STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND AVERAGE PER-PUPIL COST Our estimate of student enrollment in fiscal year 1972 is 173,835, a net decrease of approximately 2,900 students from the fiscal year 1971 level. The fiscal year 1972 request will result in an average per pupil costincluding our unique school costs and tuition-fee cost of $875. This is an increase of $95 per pupil over the fiscal year 1971 per pupil cost of $780. We believe that the requested resources will provide a sound educational program for the dependents of military and civilian personnel stationed overseas. I will be happy to answer any questions the committee may have. COMPARISON WITH NATIONAL COST Chairman ELLENDER. How does the $780 per pupil cost compare to the national average? Dr. BENSON. That is about $50 less than the national cost in the United States. When you remember that this includes our unique costs of transporting teachers to the area, and of housing them, this means that we probably would be $163 below the national cost. Chairman ELLENDER. I notice that the teachers' pay must approximate that of cities in the United States. Dr. BENSON. School districts of 100,000 population or more. QUARTERS ALLOWANCE Chairman ELLENDER. Do teachers receive extra pay for teaching abroad? Dr. BENSON. No, sir; teachers do not get extra pay for teaching overseas. If a teacher is recruited in the United States and sent overseas, he would receive free Government quarters or a quarters allowance. Chairman ELLENDER. Is that included in this amount of average per pupil cost? Dr. BENSON. Yes; it is included. COUNTRY DIFFERENTIALS Chairman ELLENDER. You do have differentials as to countries in which they serve? Dr. BENSON. Yes, there are certain countries where there is a differential; 10 percent of basic compensation_in_the Philippines, and 10 percent in Korea, and it is 10 percent in Iceland and Labrador. COMPARISON WITH NATIONAL COST Chairman ELLENDER. The average costs which you provided includes all items of Government expense, do they not? Dr. BENSON. Yes. DOD PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL Chairman ELLENDER. How many personnel do you have on the Washington level to administer this program? Dr. BENSON. In DOD we are going to be down to three professional people and two secretaries, as of next fiscal year. It is operating on a fairly slim level. PROGRAM COSTS DEFRAYED BY DEPARTMENT Chairman ELLENDER. Are you paid out of this? Dr. BENSON. No, these five personnel are paid out of the Department of Defense funds. Chairman ELLENDER. What other expenses are involved? Dr. BENSON. The only additional amount is that paid to the five personnel in my office, and these funds are in the Secretary of Defense activities budget request. Chairman ELLENDER. What does that amount to? Dr. BENSON. It is not a very large amount. We are talking about five people. Chairman ELLENDER. If you don't have it at hand, would you furnish for the record the additional cost? Dr. BENSON. Yes, we would be happy to. (The information follows:) PERSONNEL COST Directorate for dependents education (ODASD(E)): Personnel, 5; Cost, $96,900. 1971 COST Chairman ELLENDER. I am informed by Mr. Woodruff, the clerk, that last year it was $435,000. Dr. BENSON. That is right, for the personnel in my office plus those in the three military department headquarters. RECRUITMENT Senator YOUNG. You don't have any problem recruiting teachers now, do you? Dr. BENSON. Not currently. Senator. We had a full-time recruitment program a year ago, and then we had something like over 10,000 applicants to fill less than 2,000 vacancies. This year we did not conduct a full-scale recruitment program because it seemed to us unnecessary to arouse expectations in a lot of people, and we have accepted only applications for certain specialized positions that are hard to fill. Our problem is getting certain specialized positions in hardship areas, getting those filled and that is all. Senator YOUNG. How do you recruit personnel? Do you work with the universities and colleges; and if so, how? Dr. BENSON. We get enough applications. Dr. CARDINALE. We will contact universities that are members of an association called the Association for Schools, College, and University Staffing. There are about 800 universities involved with this association. We send them our recruitment literature. We send it to 101 U.S. employment service offices (USES). We send them our recruitment material and they advertise it in their area of responsibility. We also get some free radio and television time and newspaper space. Chairman ELLENDER. Do you pay for advertising? Dr. CARDINALE. No, it is all free. Dr. BENSON. As a result of this, we have some excellent teachers. STATUTORY BASE PAY Chairman ELLENDER. You have a base pay for the teachers based on a wage scale, do you not? Dr. BENSON. Yes, we have a basic salary scale. It is based upon the average of the range of rates paid in school jurisdictions of 100,000 population and over. Chairman ELLENDER. You are governed by the provision in the appropriation bill. You also have a certain minimum fixed by law as to teachers' pay. Dr. BENSON. Yes, we have various classes and various steps. The lowest salary rate is $6,550. Chairman ELLENDER. That doesn't take into consideration transportation costs and free housing. Dr. BENSON. That is right. 1971 REPROGRAMING OF FUNDS AND PERSONNEL RESTORATION Chairman ELLENDER. What is the nature of the requirement that you are talking about in item 4 of the table on page 3, which indicates a $3.5 million increase over fiscal year 1971? Dr. BENSON. I asked exactly that same question, Senator, myself. Last year we had to reprogram our funds within dependent schools because of increased logistical costs and personnel costs. As a result, 389 fewer people were employed. Now we are endeavoring in next year's budget to restore those people. There will, however, be some reduction of personnel in the Pacific area. The net effect of putting those things together is this requirement of $3.5 million. That is the restoration of the personnel that were dropped last year, minus the reduction of personnel in the Pacific area. TEACHER-STUDENT RATES Chairman ELLENDER. How does the ratio of students per teacher compare with that of schools in our country? Dr. CARDINALE. At the elementary level, about one teacher for 27 students. At the high school it is just a little bit lower, about one to 23 or one to 24. Dr. BENSON. I think those would be a little above average of most school districts. Dr. CARDINALE. About one or so children above the average here in the United States. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: ADDITION TO SCHOOL AT AUGSBURG, GERMANY Chairman ELLENDER. We are soon to consider the Military Construction bill. Are you asking for any funds for new buildings? Mr. DOWNING. We are not asking for any construction in this budget. Dr. BENSON. We have a record of one in Augsburg, Germany. Are you familiar with that? Mr. DOWNING. I understood the question was were we asking for any construction in this budget, and the answer to that is no. Chairman ELLENDER. We have a military construction bill pending. Are funds for school construction included in that? Mr. DOWNING. Yes, we are asking for an addition to the school at Augsburg, Germany. Dr. BENSON. 44,000 square feet at a cost of $1.5 million. Chairman ELLENDER. Is it planned to construct this as American property? Dr. BENSON. The military base that we are occupying, an old German Army base. Mr. DOWNING. Adjacent to the present school building. TRANSFER OF ADDITIONAL MISSION TO Augsburg Chairman ELLENDER. Do you think it is wise to build a school there now, in the light of the possibility that we might be moving a great many soldiers out of Western Europe? It is in contemplation, for we can't keep them there indefinitely. Mr. DOWNING. As I understand it, there is a new mission being assigned to Augsburg. Chairman ELLENDER. From where? Mr. DOWNING. I think it is a security mission, that is being moved into Augsburg from elsewhere in Europe. As a result, we are going to have an increased impact in the enrollment in the schools. Therefore, I do think that the additional school construction is needed. Chairman ELLENDER. We will check on that. This will be before the committee at a later date. This is a huge sum to be spending each year for education abroad. Some of us have been contending, as I know I have for the past 15 years, that we should remove our troops from Western Europe, and let them take care of this themselves, as we are trying to take care of ourselves. I think we will have a change there in the next couple of years. I certainly would hesitate to construct new buildings there at this time. PARA-PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL AIDS Is this increase of $1.2 million for one school aide for each kindergarten and special education teacher a new program, and just how many of these school aides will you employ? Dr. BENSON. This is a new program. Dr. CARDINALE. We have approximately 200 kindergarten classes. This new program would mean one teacher for each of these kindergarten classes, and then one teacher for each of the special education classes. I do not have that exact figure as to the number of new special education teachers, but I will supply it for the record. (The information follows:) This would involve approximately 240 man-years on the basis that the program would be implemented for a half-year in fiscal year 1972. The end strength would be 480 personnel. Chairman ELLENDER. Please supply for the record the average wage paid these personnel and what other benefits they receive. Dr. BENSON. I will be glad to. (The information follows:) The salaries for these para-professional school personnel would average approximately $5,213 for a school year. Other benefits would include life insurance, group hospitalization, Civil Service Retirement, and a post differential if paid in a particular country. Chairman ELLENDER. Are they Federal employees? Dr. BENSON. Yes sir; they would be Federal employees, employed at approximately the GS-3 level. PAST PROGRAM Chairman ELLENDER. You say this is a new program. How does it differ from the program in past years? Dr. CARINALE. We have had the past 3 years a kindergarten program, using the regular classroom teacher to perform all of the functions at the kindergarten level. We have always had special education teachers teachers for the blind, for the hard of hearing, and so forth. What we are doing now is to give these teachers some assistance by |