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Impact Aid - 2002

CFDA Numbers: 84.040 - Impact Aid_Facilities Maintenance
84.041 - Impact Aid

Goal 8: To provide appropriate financial assistance for federally connected children

who present a genuine burden to their school districts
Objective 8.1 of 3: Make payments in a timely manner
Indicator 8.1.1 of 1: Timeliness of payments: At least 90 percent of eligible applicants will receive initial Basic
Support and Children With Disabilities payments within 60 days after the enactment of an appropriation.
Targets and Performance Data Assessment of Progress Sources and Data Quality

. Status: Target not met Additional Source

Information: Program
Performance Explanation: For FY 2002, 63 office files, 2002.
Year Actual Performance
Targets percent of eligible applicants
1997 75 received their payments within Frequency: Annually.
60 days. Many FY 2002 Collection Period: 2002
1998 87
payments were delayed beyond Data Available: March
1999 13 90 the initial 60 days of funds 2002
2000 96 90 availability because States were Validated By: No Formal
slow to submit total current Verification.
2001 73 90 expenditure data needed to Verified by ED attestation
2002 63 90 calculate payments. For FY process and ED
2003, the Department arranged Standards for Evaluating
for an alternate data collection Program Performance
method that will avoid this delay. Data.

Improvements: In FY
2003, an alternate data
collection will help avoid
delays in payments.

Objective 8.2 of 3: Improve consultation between school districts and the Indian community to support the
education of Indian children
Indicator 8.2.1 of 1: Indian community consultation: At least 75 percent of Title IX (Indian Education) coordinators
in school districts that receive Impact Aid will report that the district solicits input from the Indian community on
strategies for increasing the achievement of Indian children.
Targets and Performance Data Assessment of Progress Sources and Data Quality

. Status: Unable to judge Additional Source

Performance Explanation: Data are collected
Year Actual Performance
Targets through a question included in
2000 75 the Title IX performance report.
FY 2001 data collected in 2002
2001 75
from a new electronic
2002 75 performance report have not
been extracted and analyzed.
The low response rate in earlier
years (47% for 1998-1999 data
and 21% for 1999-2000 data)
prevents a meaningful measure
for this indicator.
Information: Title IX,
Part A Performance
Reports.
Frequency: Annually.
Collection Period: 2002
Data Available: January
2002
Validated By: No Formal
Verification.
Verified by ED
attestation.
Limitations: Title IX
coordinators' survey
responses may not
accurately reflect the

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quality of LEAs' parental

and tribal consultation.

Objective 8.3 of 3: Make accurate payments

Indicator 8.3.1 of 1: Overpayment forgiveness requests: The number of requests to forgive overpayments of Basic
Support Payments and Payments for Children With Disabilities will not exceed 10 in a given fiscal year.
Targets and Performance Data Assessment of Progress Sources and Data Quality

Number of request to forgive overpayments of Basic Status: Target exceeded Additional Source
Support Payments Information: Program
Explanation: There were four office files, 2002.
Performance requests to forgive overpayments
Year Actual Performance
Targets in 2002. This represents a Frequency: Annually.
1999 5 10 decrease from the previous year. Collection Period: 2002
Applicants are permitted to Data Available:
2000 2 10
request forgiveness of December 2002
2001 10 10 overpayment amounts, although Validated By: No Formal
2002 4 10 not all requests are granted. Verification.
Verified by ED
attestation.

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