D.C. schools Superintendent Hosanna Mahaley knows the drill: Her husband was a military officer, and so her eldest daughter has attended eight schools.

And in just three months at Leckie Elementary School in Southwest D.C., across the freeway from Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, 50 students transferred out as their parents were relocated to other bases. Others enrolled, as their own active-duty mothers and fathers were sent to the base.

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