Licensing of Spouses Issue Will Affect Base Locals

Whether or not school systems and state professional licensing requirements are friendly to military kids and spouses will help officials choose where to station future troops, the Pentagon’s top civilian officials wrote in a letter last week.

Transferring a student to a new school district, and “license reciprocity,” whether or not professional licenses held by military spouses are accepted state-to-state, are the two top drawbacks to military service cited by families, the ArmyAir Force and Navy service secretaries said in a Feb. 23 letter to the National Governors Association.

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