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Program Assessment
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Program
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Impact Aid Construction
The program provides grants to districts that lose revenue due to the presence of children who live on or whose parents work on Federally owned land in the district, which is exempt from local taxes. These funds help replace lost local tax revenue that would otherwise be available to finance school construction costs.
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Rating
What This Rating Means |
PERFORMING Adequate
This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
- The program has a clear purpose and sound performance measures. Grants fund schools with the most dire construction needs and performance measures focus on key outcome, output, and efficiency results.
- The program is not achieving its long-term goal, but data are showing improvement. The program has increased the percentage of schools receiving grant funds that report the overall condition of their school buildings as adequate from 44 percent in 2001 to 52 percent in 2005, and aims to have 61 percent of districts receiving funds reporting adequate conditions in 2007.
- The program is managed well and program managers have consistently sought ways to make the program more effective and efficient. For example, the program has made improvements in the system it uses to process grants to make it more efficient.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Improving efficiency by making grant awards in a more timely manner.
- Reporting actual data on performance measures and showing progress toward meeting the targets.
- Reviewing performance measures as data become available to ensure that they continue to reflect the goals of the program.
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