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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Monday, March 7, 2011 In The News: Federal 'Impact Aid' Is Promised-----> Only Half Is Delivered When it comes to our federal government, money isn't always where the legislative pen is. I was previously unfamiliar with the under-funded "Impact Aid" program, which is "a 60-year-old federal program designed to ease the burden of having military bases or tribal reservations that pay no local property taxes within the districts' borders, yet send hundreds of students to their schools." Well, they only came out a billion dollars short. Included at the end of this story is a chart of how much each state qualified for in fiscal year 2011 versus how much each actually received. For Texas the numbers are 107.9 million dollars promised, 48.4 million received. The full article from USA Today can be accessed by clicking the image below.  Posted at 1:30 PM Keywords: In The News , Impact Aid , School Funding , School Financing , Budgets , Federal Funding 0 Comments |