Many School Districts Do Not Receive Federal Aid They Qualify For

USA Today (2/4, Schweers) reports that school "districts suffer when they don't get the full amount they're entitled to under a 60-year-old federal program designed to ease the burden of having military bases or tribal reservations that pay no local property taxes within the districts' borders, yet send hundreds of students to their schools. ... The Lawton [OK] School District is among the more than 1,300 school systems nationwide eligible to receive Impact Aid, and among the majority that each year receives less aid than it qualifies for." According to USA Today, the Impact Aid Program "has distributed $896 million in Federal Impact Aid for the 2010-11 school year, according to the Department of Education -- $1 billion less than what those school districts were entitled to receive under the funding formula."