This changed in 1980 after a parent group on a military base in Puerto Rico successfully sued the federal government for the right to elect its own school board. The Fort Knox School District now has a seven member advisory Board of Education elected by the parents on post. Lab computers were installed in the early 1980s. Internet connections were installed in the High School, as a pilot program, in 1993. Now every school has a networked computer lab and the larger schools have two computer labs.
Every school has Internet connections in virtually every classroom, media center, and lab.
The High School has a distance-learning program. All staff has access to Outlook electronic mail. Every media center has electronic card catalogs and bibliography search tools. TQE has resulted in high staff morale, high community confidence levels and initiatives and processes that have proven effective due to high stakeholder buy-in. These academic successes have positively impacted students' self-concepts and confidence levels.