[Dasaji]

Kids brought this memo home today. Seems a little strange....any thoughts? What's December 17th?

[Chad Fairbanks]

My kids used to bring those home all the time - I think the schools get extra money for any dependents of active duty military people attending their school... I could be wrong, though...

[berkeleybeej]

I believe that local schools get additional financial aid for children of military families and some other federal type jobs.

[bigaln2]

Next Tuesday...nothing too special.

[Texas_Jarhead]

perhaps related to small pox vaccinations? odd

[Flyer]

IMPACT Aid

"The mission of the Impact Aid Program is to disburse Impact Aid payments to local educational agencies that are financially burdened by federal activities and to provide technical assistance and support services to staff and other interested parties."

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

My bet is if they are doing this it must be for money purposes. My guess is some federal grant aid.

[Dasaji]

OK, thanks all - thought it was some odd pre-war preparation - LOL!

[Quix]

Schools get extra money--especially for military personnel who are typically out of State or at least out of city and so are not part of the school tax base but use school services and monies.

Has been going on for many decades.

[Flyer]

We got this one solved quick. No place like FR when you have a question.

[El Gato]

The basic notion of "impact aide" is that the employer, the federal government, pays no school taxes, as a commercial company, even a Mom & Pop confectionary store would. In places were the federal payroll is large, this put a much larger burdern on the individual homeowners or renter, and thus impact aide was born.

However I thought it was a thing of the past. In Texas the lack of impact aide was a signifigent part of the scenario that led to the Edgewood court case and decision which in turn led to the "Robin Hood" plan for school funding by the state. Edgewood is a school district in a relatively (and in some cases absolutely) poor area adjacent to Kelly and Lackland Air Force Bases. Kelly had a huge civilian workforce and many of them lived in the Edgewood district. When impact aide went away, or at least was severly reduced, the district, which had very little other industry or commerical buisinesses at the time, was in a world of hurt.

Curious though why the Post Office and FBI would be excluded, although I seem to remember that when those forms were sent home back in the dark ages of the 1950s and early 60s, they excluded the Post Office too, but after all these decades, the memory is dim, especially since it didn't apply to me, although it did apply to my wife, whose father worked for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service.

[TXBubba]

I had to have my parent's fill out a card every year for the same purpose. We had a big Air Force Base in town. My Dad worked there as a civilian. There were different colored cards then for civilians, enlisted etc. etc.

[RnMomof7]

My kids brought a note like that home when they were in school......(now all out of college) It has something to do with federal money to the school district I believe

[wimpycat]

I graduated highschool in the 80's and I lived in a military town. We took home those "Federal Cards", as they were called, every school year for the whole 12 years. These are nothing new.