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TITLE 33 EDUCATION CHAPTER 57 INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN 33-5701. interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. The Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with any other states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents by: A. Facilitating the timely enrollment of children of military families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the transfer of education records from the previous school district(s) or variations in entrance/age requirements. B. Facilitating the student placement process through which children of military families are not disadvantaged by variations in attendance requirements, scheduling, sequencing, grading, course content or assessment. C. Facilitating the qualification and eligibility for enrollment, educational programs, and participation in extracurricular academic, athletic, and social activities. D. Facilitating the on-time graduation of children of military families. E. Providing for the promulgation and enforcement of administrative rules implementing the provisions of this compact. F. Providing for the uniform collection and sharing of information between and among member states, schools and military families under this compact. G. Promoting coordination between this compact and other compacts affecting military children. H. Promoting flexibility and cooperation between the educational system, parents and the student in order to achieve educational success for the student. ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction: A. Active duty means: full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the national guard and reserve on active duty orders pursuant to 10 U.S.C. sections 1209 and 1211. B. Children of military families means: a school-aged child(ren), enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade, in the household of an active duty member. C. Compact commissioner means: the voting representative of each compacting state appointed pursuant to article VIII of this compact. D. Deployment means: the period one (1) month prior to the service members’ departure from their home station on military orders though six (6) months after return to their home station. E. Education(al) records means: those official records, files, and data directly related to a student and maintained by the school or local education agency including, but not limited to, records encompassing all the material kept in the student’s cumulative folder such as general identifying data,