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Impact Aid Basic Support Payments and Payments for Children with Disabilities

This program provides financial support to school districts that lose revenue due to the presence of children who live on or whose parents work on Federally owned land in the district, which is exempt from local taxes. These funds help replace lost local tax revenue that would otherwise be available to educate its students.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program has a clear purpose, but the program design may not adequately target according to need. The statute has special formula provisions that benefit a few select school districts without regard to need. The funding formula also does not take into account different State funding mechanisms.
  • The program has measures for payment timeliness and accuracy, but not whether or not these payments are linked to the actual financial need of the school district. There is currently no clear link between the amount of payments to a district and its financial need.
  • The program has adequate financial management and has achieved efficiencies through data systems improvements. The improvements have increased efficiencies in calculating payments, reduced the potential for errors through automating steps in the payment process, and permitted more efficient and effective data review.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing and implementing a model for estimating the effectiveness of the program in delivering an appropriate amount of assistance to Federally affected school districts.
  • Developing performance goals for the program.
  • Working with Congress to correct the structural flaws in the program.

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