A group of Indian River Central School District Board of Education members and administrators met with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on March 20th, as a part of the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools (NAFIS) conference to discuss the critical need for continued
Impact Aid funding.
Vouchers for military - connected students erode military families» protections & threaten
Impact Aid funding.
Rather than diverting federal funding to non-public schools, the federal government should increase
Impact Aid funding, which is currently funded only at 55 - percent of need.
Any direct or indirect erosion of Impact Aid through a voucher program will reduce
the Impact Aid funding currently going to these districts, and would also place a great financial burden on the local community, which would be left to fund public schools with an already low level of state and local tax revenue.
While the bill may seem nonthreatening at first, 80 percent of military - connected students currently attend public schools, and many of those schools rely on
Impact Aid funding.
Wagner receives approximately $ 4.3 million in
Impact Aid funding, which represents more than one - third of its total revenue.
Yet the report does not consider how much funding Impact Aid school districts would lose if children not generating
Impact Aid funding begin to receive ESAs.
A controversial proposal before Congress that would redirect federal
Impact Aid funding away from public school districts and toward education savings accounts (ESAs) for students in military families is drawing criticism from the very families it is intended to benefit.
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Lyft has pledged a $ 1 million donation to the ACLU, which has fought the travel ban, and Uber has committed
funds to
aid impacted drivers.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of
funding for state
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange
impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
President Trump pledged swift federal
aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall
funding could
impact the effort.
Cuomo said the DSH cut «is so drastic we will not able to
fund any public hospital at 100 percent» and will
impact hospitals that
aid the uninsured or provide reimbursement for Medicaid loses across upstate and downstate New York, including SUNY Upstate, SUNY Downstate and SUNY Stony Brook.
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David Cameron betrayed anxiety about the coincidence — and its
impact on potential Ukip supporters opposed to overseas
aid or sceptical of climate change — by refusing to say how much Britain is likely to offer and stressing the
funding would come from existing government
funds.
I am also pleased that this legislation includes
funding to
aid Monroe County towns
impacted by the severe windstorm earlier this Spring.
NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the
funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the
impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw
aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.
«He has been a vocal champion for pre-k
funding and for additional state
aid for education, and a proponent of Community Schools, which put needed health and community services where they have the most
impact — inside city school,» said Mr. Mulgrew.
In order to project the
impact of proposed cutbacks to U.S. -
funded programs in South Africa, which has the greatest prevalence of HIV infection of any country, and the west African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, which has a different kind of epidemic and a different level of foreign
aid dependency, the researchers used a widely - published mathematical model along with epidemiologic and cost data from each country to project the outcomes of potential programmatic responses.
«The Budget provides resources to support the Global Health Security Agenda, increases
funding to eradicate polio and other global health challenges, and creates a new
Impact Fund for targeted global HIV /
AIDS efforts,» the fact sheet states.
The
Fund aids the Brooklyn communities and organizations
impacted by Hurricane Sandy and will provide direct support for need identified by local Brooklyn nonprofit service providers, the small business community and borough civic institutions.
Although officials from the 4,000 districts nationwide that receive federal
impact -
aid funds have been outspoken in their opposition to cuts in the program recommended by the Reagan Administration, the Fairfax school board was the first in the country to threaten military families with tuition charges to make up for the lost support.
By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its
impact -
aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal
funding, on the bases.
The state of Arizona and some of its school districts face a budgetary tangle because of an unprecedented U.S. Education Department decision that the state's
funding - equalization plan fails to meet standards set under the federal
impact -
aid program.
The Commission will examine factors that
impact spending in education, including: school
funding and distribution of State
Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil
funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.
Title VII of the ESSA would become
Impact Aid (formerly Title VIII of NCLB), which would continue to authorize
funding for schools located on federal property not generating tax revenue.
Title VIII of the ESSA (formerly
Impact Aid under NCLB) becomes the law's general provisions section, providing definitions of terms, outlining the use of administrative
funding, and detailing waivers, among other regulations.
Districts must decide how they plan to spend that
funding, called «
impact aid,» by July 31, or give it back to the federal government, said Chad Colby, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education.
Under the proposal,
funds that would have been sent to a district school on the child's behalf through the federal
Impact Aid program would be directed to families to use for education - related expenses.
The accounts would be
funded by setting aside money that already goes to K - 12 educational institutions through the Federal
Impact Aid program.
The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of
funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal
Impact Aid program to different schooling options.
The
funding increases in this legislation, including special education grants under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Title I, and
Impact Aid are critical for America's public schools to continue to improve and educate a growing and diverse population of students.
The Military Education Savings Act proposes creating ESAs for certain military - connected students, which could decimate
funding for school districts eligible for
Impact Aid.
Nearly $ 1.2 billion of
Impact Aid's $ 1.3 billion in fiscal year 2017
funding is from a program known as basic support payments.
Unfortunately, this misguided bill could have a devastating
impact on education funding for 10 million students that attend one of the 1,200 Impact Aid school dist
impact on education
funding for 10 million students that attend one of the 1,200
Impact Aid school dist
Impact Aid school districts.
As one of the first federal education programs,
Impact Aid was created in 1950 to address the absence of a local property tax base to
fund the education of military - connected students on installations.
Additionally, NSBA urges Congress to maximize the investment in the
Impact Aid Program — which provides essential
funding to districts with tax - exempt federal properties within their jurisdictions — including that for federal properties payments.
Schools no longer receive
funding through the Economic
Impact Aid for English learners.
To date, Oregon has received nearly $ 121 million in education stimulus
funds — representing a combination of
funding for Title I, IDEA, Vocational Rehabilitation grants, Independent Living grants,
Impact Aid dollars and Homeless Education grants.
Working collaboratively with stakeholders across the state who are
impacted by how Connecticut's public schools are
funded, the Connecticut School Finance Project has developed solutions aimed at 1) improving how state education
aid is distributed to public schools and 2) improving predictability in special education
funding.
Finally, the WASB urged Congress to prioritize
funding for IDEA (special education) and Title I (assistance to districts and schools serving with low - income children) and restore cuts to federal
Impact Aid proposed in the President's recommended budget.
In an effort to continue to improve school facilities and lessen the
impact of future debt service repaid from the District's operating budget, in FY16, the CPS Board approved for the first time a statutorily — authorized annual Capital Improvement Tax (CIT) levy to
aid in
funding its ongoing Capital Improvement Program.
Federal
funds for
impact aid and special title programs also account for a large share of school
funding.
Currently,
Impact Aid is
funded only at 58 - percent of need.
A voucher program for military families would reduce or even eliminate
funding for
Impact Aid - which provides a payment to school districts with concentrations of federally - connected students — for public school districts near military installations.
If this proposed legislation passes,
Impact Aid, and therefore public schools, stand to lose $ 450 million in
funding.
ESEA, Title VIII,
Impact Aid $ 1.3 Billion
Funding flows to eligible districts based on the population of «federally - connected» children (primarily children of military personnel).
Though scholars such as Matthew M. Chingos have asserted that in the grand scheme of things,
funding for state tests is a miniscule portion of the total amount spent on K - 12 public education, I wonder how the cost of switching state exams will
impact districts that receive disproportionately less in state
aid.
The bill would use
funds designated for the federal
Impact Aid program to pay for a new Education Savings Account (ESA) program for military - connected students.
Diverting
Impact Aid dollars to private school vouchers would be extremely detrimental for the school districts that rely on this
funding to provide an education to military - connected students.
Impact Aid provides
funding to school districts that have lost local tax revenue (which traditionally
funds public schools) due to the presence of federal tax - exempt land, such as military installations, Native American reservations, or national parks.