DoDEA Pacific Public Affairs
Unit 35007
APO, AP 96376
DSN: 315-544-5657
From the States: 011-81-6117-55-5657
PublicAffairs@pac.dodea.edu
The DoDEA Pacific Public Affairs Office initiates and manages DoDEA's communications and outreach efforts for the Pacific to include Guam, Japan, Okinawa, South Korea. The office is responsible for media relations, internal information programs and communication with students, parents, teachers, school administrators and the public.
Pacific in the News
New DODEA facilities in Korea to ease crowding as school year kicks off
Stars & Stripes
Seoul | December 27, 2011
When base schools across the Pacific open Monday morning, two facilities aimed at easing overcrowding in South Korea will be among them: a new high school in Daegu and a new wing of an elementary school at Camp Casey.
“There is no question these additional school facilities are coming on line just in time,” Department of Defense Education Activity Pacific spokesman Charly Hoff said Friday. “Both Casey Elementary School and Daegu American School were more than full last year.”
The new buildings are meant to help absorb a recent increase in the number of students that has corresponded with an increase in command-sponsored families in South Korea. Read rest of article.