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"No international school guarantees admission to [U.S.] embassy children [in Tokyo], so the [community liaison officers] play an essential role in ensuring good access to good schools for embassy families. Lynne [Murphy] and Jennifer [Watson] made significant progress improving the relationship between the embassy and the international schools, which had been eroding due to the inability of the U.S. government to compete with U.S. companies willing to pay large grants to schools to ensure access for their employees' children."

Inside a U.S. Embassy: How The Foreign Service Works For America, edited by Shawn Dorman (American Foreign Service Ass'n 2003), at Page 53.