The purpose of this memorandum is to implement a recent legislative change that allows the Department of Defense Dependents School to employ a Local National to teach credit bearing, high-school-level, World Language Program, Host Nation Language Course, when a U.S. citizen is not reasonably available. The change was incorporated into the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015. Accordingly, when hiring a Local National to teach the Host Nation Language Course the following criteria must be considered as set forth below