Dakota. This program is of vital importance to the Financial Wellbeing of the schools as it reimburses them for revenue shortfall in reduction or absence of local tax because of federal property. Toin determine the program, schl districts must annually calculate students that they have enrolled while generally aapproved during the pandemic during this type of count has presented a new set of challengesus for administrators. Impact aid Coronavirus Relief act is a common sense a partisan approach that would not cost a dime yet provide financial ability to School Districts by allowing them to use lastth yeas student headcount on impact aid accounts they are completing this fall. Prevents reporting of noticeable but likely temporary decline in student enrollment that would lead to reduced impact aid payments next year. Its collecting student data more challenging as well. Expanding lines student headcount due to parents temporally homeschooling children during the pandemic. Unless Congress Allows for School Districts to use last years student headcount on thia years applications, schools will have the undo burden of collecting the data during otherwise challenging times and could experience produce impact aid payments next fall. This legislation will ensure they have certainty in the near term. In passing the house by unanimous consent october 2 and impact aid School Districts are eager for the senate to do the same and i hope we can get that done today and i would yield to the senator from minnesota for comments. Senator from minnesota. Mr. President , i rise in support of my colleagues to pass impact aid for Coronavirus Relief act by unanimous consent. As we continue to respond to thu coronavirus pandemic, we need to support schools so students can keep learning. In congress, we have a special obligation to federal impact schools and aslsag my colleague senator said, these are schools located in districts with a significant amount of non taxablexa land that puts them at significant disadvantage for raising education revenue and we make this right by providing direct federal payments which are crucial for their operatio operations. What the bill does is provide common sense change that allows School Districts to use counts from the previous academic t yer and submit impact aid applications. In light of the challenges of doing a safe and accurate count in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, this only makes sense so i want to thank my colleagues from north dakota, ive been so glad to work with you to support School Districts that rely on impact aid programsha and promoe Financial Stability for these School Districts during the pandemic. Hope we can pass this bill today and get it signed into law. I come to talk about thed ned for us as congress to come together to address this coronavirus pandemic. We have unprecedented healthcare and economic crisis right now it is is important for us to figure out what we can do, what to agree on then move forward. Since the pandemic began, ive come to the floor 17 separate times urge my colleagues to Work Together on a bipartisan basis to try to put together legislation to enable us to respond effectively in focus ways for the covid19 crisis. The cares act passed in
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