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Like most Government programs, Impact Aid began as a modest proposal to solve a major problem?and just grew and grew. As the armed forces built up during World War II and the Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu...
...districts without military installations also wanted their constituencies to benefit, and step by step they found ways for them to do so. Over the years they expanded the program to include Indians and all Federal Government workers, even those who did not reside on federal land and thus paid local property taxes, and children living in federally financed public housing projects. The program, which originally covered 512,000 children, now blankets 2.4 million. So long as 3% of the kids in a school district fall into one of the many categories designated, the district gets sums that can be more...
...Diego school district administers its $11.7 million in Impact Aid with one accountant and one clerk. Says Dave Fish, who supervises the funds in San Diego: "Out here people are worried about the property tax. If we didn't get this aid, we would have had to increase local taxes. And why shouldn't the Federal Government pay its rent...
...vague sense, Impact Aid is a form of rent paid by the Government in lieu of local taxes on federal buildings and property. But Carter Administration officials, who are trying to cut the fat out of a half-trillion-dollar budget, point out that often the money from Impact Aid goes to communities whether they need it or not. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the wealthiest school districts in the nation. Montgomery County, Md., has a per capita income about 50% above the national average, thanks largely to the battalions of Washington bureaucrats who live there. Even though...
...proposal has ever been made to stop funds for children of employees who actually live on federal property. But scrapping aid for people who live on private property?and thus pay local taxes?would save about $400 million annually. This year the Administration proposed saving $76 million through such minor changes as stopping payments for children whose parents work on federal property outside the county where their school district is located. House and Senate subcommittees not only ignored those requests but added benefits...