House Committee OKs Plans For Impact Aid, Even Start
The House Education and the Workforce
Committee approved plans to revise the federal impact-aid and Even
Start programs last week, completing two more pieces of its Elementary
and Secondary Education Act reauthorization.
The $906 million impact-aid program, the fifth largest in the K-12 budget, gives funds to school districts whose property-tax bases have been adversely affected by the presence of federal installations, such as military bases, that are tax-exempt.
Nearly every recent president, and some members of Congress, have taken aim at the 50-year-old program because they believe it to be laden with "pork barrel" projects and not targeted enough to districts with severe financial burdens. President Clinton proposed that the program's funding be cut to $770 million in his recent budget...
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