A HOUSE RESOLUTION urging congress not to cut impact aid to schools.
Whereas, the federal Impact Aid Program provides funding to local school districts for the education of federally connected students, including those living on military bases and Indian lands and those living in federal public housing; and
Whereas, impact aid may be used for a variety of expenses, including teacher salaries, textbooks, computers, after‑school programs, remedial tutors, and advanced placement classes; and
Whereas, to be eligible for impact aid, a school district must either have at least 400 federally connected students or at least three percent of all students in the school district's average daily attendance must be federally connected; and
Whereas, 40 cents of every dollar appropriated for impact aid is allocated to school districts educating military children; and
Whereas, the Bush administration has proposed eliminating military children who live offpost from the formula for calculating impact aid; and
Whereas, this proposal, if enacted, would result in a drastic reduction of millions of dollars in impact aid to school districts that encompass military installations and thus would place a heavy economic burden on those school districts, especially those in North Carolina; Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
SECTION 1.  The House of Representatives urges Congress, at a minimum, to retain the current formula for calculating impact aid to ensure that all students receive the education they deserve.
SECTION 2.  The Principal Clerk shall transmit a certified copy of this resolution to each member of North Carolina's congressional delegation.
SECTION 3.  This resolution is effective upon adoption.