---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 902"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "902"
heading: "Regulations of Secretary of Defense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/902"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Pay and Personnel Program for Overseas Teachers"
---

# §902. Regulations of Secretary of Defense

- (a) **Employment, compensation, etc., of teachers—** Not later than the ninetieth day following July 17, 1959, the [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of Defense shall prescribe and issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Such regulations shall govern—
  - (1) the establishment of [teaching positions](/usc/20/901.md?p=1);
  - (2) the fixing of basic compensation for [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2) and [teaching positions](/usc/20/901.md?p=1) at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population;
  - (3) the entitlement of [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2) to compensation;
  - (4) the payment of compensation to [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2);
  - (5) the appointment of [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2);
  - (6) the conditions of employment of [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2);
  - (7) the length of the school year or school years applicable to [teaching positions](/usc/20/901.md?p=1);
  - (8) the leave system for [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2);
  - (9) quarters, allowances, and additional compensation for [teachers](/usc/20/901.md?p=2); and
  - (10) such other matters as may be relevant and appropriate to the purposes of this chapter.
- (b) **Effective date of regulations—** The regulations prescribed and issued by the [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of Defense under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall become effective on such date as the [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of Defense shall prescribe but not later than the ninetieth day following the date of issuance of such regulations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–91, § 4, July 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 214; Pub. L. 89–391, § 1(a), Apr. 14, 1966, 80 Stat. 117.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 2352 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

### Amendments

1966—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 89–391 substituted provisions for issuance of regulations to fix basic compensation for teachers and teaching positions at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population for former provisions fixing basic compensation for teaching positions in relation to rates of basic compensation for similar positions in the United States.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1966 Amendment

Pub. L. 89–391, § 2, Apr. 14, 1966, 80 Stat. 118, provided that: “The amendments made by the first section of this Act [amending this section and section 903 of this title] shall become effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins after the date of enactment of this Act [Apr. 14, 1966].”