Impact Aid and the Education of Military Children - Softcover

Buddin, Richard; Gill, Brian P.; Zimmer, Ron W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833029649 ISBN 13: 9780833029645

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2001

Synopsis

Children of military parents in the United States generally attend public school and have a portion of their education expenses paid for by the federal government through the Department of Education's Impact Aid program. Impact Aid provides $900 million a year to approximately 1,400 local education agencies, which enroll 1.2 million eligible children, 36 percent of whom are military children. RAND studied this program, emphasizing the implications for military children. The authors contend that the funding formula is flawed because of inconsistent district boundary definitions, leading to wide variances in Impact Aid

About this title

About the Author:

BRIAN P. GILL (Ph.D. Jurisprudence and Social Policy: University of California at Berkeley) is an Associate Policy Analyst in Civil Justice and Education at RAND.

Ron W. Zimmer (Ph.D, University of Kentucky, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration) is an Associate Policy Analysis at RAND.

About this edition

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0833029649
• ISBN 13: 9780833029645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124