However, if you are living in one of the seventeen countries with which the US has a Binational Social Security Agreement, you work temporarily in one of those countries and your pay would otherwise be subjected to social security taxes in both countries, you generally would remain covered by US social security only. She is the author of The Expat's Guide to U.S. Taxes . However, most civilian agency dependents abroad attend non-government, coeducational, independent schools of various kinds. Although these schools include those founded by US companies, church organizations, and individual proprietors, most of them are nonprofit, nondenominational, independent schools established on a cooperative basis by American citizens residing in foreign communities. Many of these schools have received assistance and support from the US government under a program administered by the Office of Overseas Schools of the US Department of State.
Variety is one of their basic characteristics.
They range from tiny schools, such as the Bishkek International School in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with five pupils, to large overseas schools, like the Jakarta International School in Jakarta, Indonesia, with 2,843 students. The schools are not operated or controlled by the US government. Ownership and policy control are typically in the hands of associations of parents of the children enrolled, who elect a school board to supervise the superintendent or chief administrator. Tuition payments are the principal source of financing for the schools. An outstanding characteristic of most American-sponsored schools is the use they make of their location abroad to provide quality foreign language and local culture programs.