The plan calls for one-in-one replacements so the troops currently there may be rotated out.
It’s been sent to Rumsfeld for review.
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When an Air Force recruiter recently strode out of Evanston Township High School with a student directory, it marked a major turning point for a school that had long resisted handing over the highly coveted information to the military.
The brief exchange last month came only after loud protests from some parents who opposed releasing the directory, a list of roughly 1,000 names, addresses and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors.
But under a little-noticed provision tucked into the No Child Left Behind Act–the sweeping education-reform law designed to identify and overhaul failing schools–school administrators had little choice. The law gives the military unprecedented access to all high school directories of upperclassmen–a mother lode of information used for mass-mailing recruiting appeals and telephone solicitations.
“You can touch a person that may not have known we were out there,” said Air Force Sgt. Derrick Russ, who recruits in the Chicago area.
Before the law took effect last July, 12 percent of the nation’s public high schools–some 2,500, including Evanston–denied the military access to student databases, according to the Pentagon. Now, only six high schools are holding out, said a spokeswoman, who declined to identify the schools.