Contingency Area Education Support/Troops To Teachers

Contingency Area Education Support

The Contingency Area Education Support program offered over 290 onsite or synchronous live-streamed courses. It hosted 4,032 enrollments for service members in forward deployed areas within the Central Command (CENTCOM) and Africa Command (AFRICOM) areas of responsibility (AOR). These courses were offered in Kuwait (Camps Arifjan, Buehring, and Ali Al Salem Bases); Qatar (Al Udeid Air Base); Bahrain (Manama Naval Support Activity and Isa Air Base); Djibouti (Camp Lemonnier); Jordan (Muwaffaq Salti Air Base), Egypt (North and South Camps) and United Arab Emirates (Al Dhafra Air Base). Over 80 degrees were awarded down range. The region’s National Test Centers (NTC) administered 2,634 credits for examinations. NTCs located at Al Dhafra and Al Udeid received accolades and official recognition from CLEP due to being in the top 20 sites internationally for proctoring the highest numbers of exams and staying within the military pass rates averages.

Troops to Teachers

Troops to Teachers (TTT) helped 7,530 service members and veterans with services and support to become certified K-12 teachers with individualized counseling on state-specific requirements, referrals to education programs, and employment facilitation. Throughout the pandemic, many school districts faced significant challenges in attracting and retaining teachers. TTT partnerships with state departments of education helped connect veterans to school districts experiencing teacher shortages in critical areas such as Special Education; Bilingual Education; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM); Career and Technical Education, and Early Childhood Education.