Education of Children on Federal Lands

John D. Killian, 3rd, Deputy Attorney General, and Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General,

You request to be advised as to the responsibility of the Commonwealth to reimburse school districts on account of children of school age living on Federal land located within such school districts.

Several sections of the Public School Code of March 10,1949, P. L. 30, as amended, bear upon the problem: Section 1327, 24 PS §13-1327, provides that every child of compulsory school age having a legal residence in this Commonwealth is required to attend school; section 2502, 24 PS §25-2502, provides that State…