Sentences with phrase «impact aid»

The data could also be useful in tracking federal Impact Aid funding awarded to school districts serving large numbers of children from military families.

Keeping closer tabs on federal Impact Aid to military connected students might also help districts determine how well they are serving these students.

Impact Aid provides formula and competitive grants directly to eligible school districts serving federally connected children on military bases, Indian lands, and subsidized housing.

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 districts.

Impact Aid attempts to fill the hole in district budgets caused by the loss of that local tax revenue and is crucial for the students in such school districts.

Impact aid funds do not go directly to federally - connected children, but rather, support the district as a whole.

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.

A voucher program for military families would reduce funding for Impact Aid - which provides a payment to school districts with concentrations of federally - connected students — for public school districts near military installations.

NSBA and 268 other organizations forwarded a letter to the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee members voicing opposition to the elimination of Impact Aid Federal Properties payments to school districts in the Administration's Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request.

has an amendment to establish education savings accounts for military families using federal impact aid dollars.

$ 449,000 in Impact Aid funds for construction activities, including the preparation of drawings and specifications for school facilities; erecting, building, acquiring, altering, remodeling, repairing or extending school facilities; and inspecting and supervising the construction of school facilities.

It would turn IDEA into a voucher, reduce Impact Aid, and expand the failing DC voucher program, all the while, stripping vital civil rights protections and basic accountability standards.

Approximately 1,400 school districts receive critical support through Impact Aid.

Every student who leaves a public school in an LEA receiving impact aid reduces the funds available in that account for division among all other LEAs relying on it.

Arizona has an Arizona State Impact Aid Association nonprofit to provide leadership, advocacy and a united voice.

Schools no longer receive funding through the Economic Impact Aid for English learners.

However, the committee approved an amendment from Rep. Derek Kilmer requesting the U.S. Department of Education to provide guidance to Impact Aid districts on how to measure school districts» tax rates compared to the average tax rate for the state.

Cuts would cause financial harm as Impact Aid supports personnel and professional development, academic materials, transportation, technology, and other general operating expenses.

Based on information from the Arizona State Impact Aid Association, 79 district and charter schools receive the federal money, totaling $ 221,031,427 in 2012.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

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.

Public money — including Impact Aid dollars — should go toward helping improve public schools, not be diverted into misguided voucher schemes.

School districts that serve the majority of students from military and tribal families rely upon funding from Impact Aid.

One of the communities vulnerable to potential Impact Aid changes is Wagner Community School District, located on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

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.

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.

«As members of Congress representing school districts heavily dependent upon impact aid, we request your support of this vitally important program,» Mr. Porter wrote in a letter to Rep. John R. Kasich, R - Ohio, the chairman of the House Budget Committee.

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.

about NSBA Urges Congress to Sustain Impact Aid Federal Properties Payments to School Districts

Kline also added provisions that would address Impact Aid, which provides dollars to districts whose boundaries either include military bases and other federal property not subject to taxes, or serve Native students who live on reservations (from which districts also can not collect taxes).

Under the Kline plan, the U.S. Department of Education could no longer delay handing out Impact Aid subsidies beyond three years, as well as changes the formula for compensating districts with federal property within their boundaries.

Any proposal that dilutes Impact Aid funding will affect every one of those districts.

This means the formulas that distribute Impact Aid funds do not create a flat allocation for each federally connected student; instead, they concentrate funding in communities that are most severely affected by nontaxed federal land.

Impact Aid now helps cover the school's daily operations, including teachers» salaries, textbooks, supplies, and utility bills.

The proposed bill will divert public Impact Aid dollar to accounts that parents can use for private school tuition.

According to Kasia Kalata, the external affairs manager at the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, the state offered impact aid to support school districts with declining enrollments, but phased out the policy in 2009.

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.

1998: Transition Impact Aid passes the General Assembly to encourage suburban and downstate districts to join Chicago in authorizing charters.

A few federal programs, like Impact Aid and Head Start, were cut immediately, and local communities are already dealing with the repercussions.

Five programs receive an increase (Impact Aid Basic Support Payments, + $ 10 million; Indian Education, + $ 20 million; Charter school grants, + $ 4.8 million; IDEA state grants, + $ 502 million; and Head Start, +192 million).

Congress would better serve all military - connected families by fully funding Impact Aid instead of diverting federal funding into a private school voucher plan.

(Trust funds, on the other hand, are counted as a student asset and will severely impact aid eligibility.)

The accounts would be funded by setting aside money that already goes to K - 12 educational institutions through the Federal Impact Aid program.

Impact Aid provides critical funding to over 1,200 public school districts nationwide that educate military children, children residing on Indian lands, children living in federal low - rent housing facilities, children of civilian employees of the federal government, and the children in school districts with significant tax - exempt federal property.