Duval County schools eligible for national wealth but lone if families capable retired the form

Duval County parents are urged to capable retired the Federal Impact Aid Survey by Dec. 17, truthful their child’s schoolhouse tin go eligible for national backing reimbursement that tin wage for textbooks, further unit and superior improvements.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Duval County parents are urged to capable retired the Federal Impact Aid Survey by Dec. 17, truthful their child’s schoolhouse tin go eligible for national backing reimbursement that tin wage for textbooks, further unit and superior improvements.

One of the ways schoolhouse districts person gross is done section spot taxes, but determination are definite properties that are exempt, similar national properties.

The Federal Impact Aid Program is designed to assistance schoolhouse districts that person mislaid spot taxation gross owed to the beingness of this tax-exempt national spot oregon person experienced accrued expenditures due to the fact that of the enrollment of federally connected children.

With much than 9,000 federally associated families, the Duval County schoolhouse territory is 1 of the apical 10 astir populated schoolhouse districts successful the state for federally connected students.

Parents and caregivers are often confused astir whether their occupation oregon wherever they unrecorded makes the territory eligible for these funds. Here’s what you should cognize astir myths associated with the program:

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  • Myth 1: FIA lone applies to progressive work subject personnel. That is incorrect.

  • Fact 1: While FIA does use to progressive work military, it besides applies to adults who enactment connected national spot oregon adults who unrecorded connected national spot (including authorities housing) with school-age children.

  • Myth 2: The lone national spot we person successful Duval County are the 2 large Navy bases. That is incorrect.

  • Fact 2: Duval County has respective subject installations PLUS national buildings (i.e., FBI, Department of Treasury, Homeland Security, Labor, Justice, etc.) and authorities lodging developments which would use to the survey.

  • Myth 3: I enactment connected 1 of the subject installations oregon successful a national building, but I americium not a subordinate of the subject truthful FIA does not use to maine oregon my child. This is incorrect.

  • Fact 3: If you are a genitor with school-age children betwixt the property of 5-18 and you enactment connected subject spot oregon successful a national building, the national authorities allows america to number your kid for the survey due to the fact that the spot you enactment connected is not taxable. Submission of your signifier allows the schoolhouse territory to retrieve a information of the spot taxation dollars mislaid to national spot which, again, is not taxable.

  • Myth 4: I americium NOT going to capable retired the signifier due to the fact that the schoolhouse strategy volition nonstop each of the accusation to Washington, D.C. and I bash not privation them knowing, losing oregon utilizing my information. This is incorrect.

  • Fact 4: The FIA survey accusation is lone utilized for tabulation purposes. The survey responses spell NOWHERE.

The survey is short. It asks 5 questions and tin beryllium completed successful little than a minute. Click present to implicit the survey.

If you bash not person entree to the internet, you tin prime up a Federal Impact Aid Survey signifier astatine your child’s schoolhouse office.

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