Every year, 1.2 million military personnel and their families face the possibility of receiving orders from the Pentagon to move from their current case region to another post across the country or around the world.
This means yet another move to a new school. For their children, it's starting over once again – making new friends, signing up for classes and, now, answering an important question about their educational status.
In 2015, Congress recognized the challenges these moves impose on family life when it passed the Every Student Succeeds Act. Included in the Act was a provision that created a Military Student Identifier (MSI).
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