IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 598 
Recognizing the valuable contributions of military impacted schools, teachers, 
administration, and staff for their ongoing contributions to the education 
of military children. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 20, 2004 
Mr. HAYES submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the valuable contributions of military impacted 
schools, teachers, administration, and staff for their on-
going contributions to the education of military children. 
Whereas there are approximately 750,000 school-aged chil-
dren of members of the active duty Armed Forces in the 
United States; 
Whereas there are approximately 650,000 of these military 
children served in public schools across the United 
States; 
Whereas there are approximately 100,500 military children 
served in Department of Defense Education Activity 
schools in the United States and overseas;
•HRES 598 IH 
Whereas schools serving military installations stress the im-
portance of being aware of what is happening in the 
world and the impact of world events on the lives of mili-
tary families; 
Whereas schools serving military installations can provide 
students a sense of safety and reassurance; 
Whereas schools serving military installations understand the 
importance of providing a normal environment and reg-
ular routine for children of parents in the military before 
learning can ever take place; 
Whereas such schools can offer increased counseling for mili-
tary children due to the deployment of family members; 
Whereas such schools can offer additional counseling for 
staff, many of whom are spouses, parents, brothers, and 
sisters of deployed members of the Armed Forces; 
Whereas schools serving military installations often have ad-
ditional security measures in place and are continually 
looking at further security measures for their schools; 
Whereas schools serving military installations serve students 
whose parents can be deployed for long periods of time 
and often with short notice; 
Whereas teachers and counselors working in schools serving 
military installations are trained to work with military 
children and their classmates when there is a service-re-
lated incident or death; 
Whereas school districts surrounding military installations 
can assist other school districts impacted by National 
Guard and Reserve deployments with support for stu-
dents; and
•HRES 598 IH 
Whereas the Impact Aid program provides support for mili-
tary impacted schools in their efforts to serve students: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the contributions of the teachers, 
administration, and staff of Military Impacted 
Schools and the Department of Defense Education 
Activity schools world-wide; and 
(2) commends the teachers in military impacted 
communities who work on the front lines at home to 
educate students during times of peace and times of 
conflict. 
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