By: Haley Britzky, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn
At a time when US children are struggling with core subjects like reading and math, students from one school system have consistently scored higher than the national average on federally mandated tests. Yet the Department of Defense Education Activity, or DoDEA – the Pentagon-run school system that educates some 66,000 children of US troops around the world – is being overhauled under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.