And in fact, there's evidence that school lunch programs are struggling to meet the new federal health standards (the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires schools to meet stricter nutritional standards in 2012 - 2013 to receive extra federal funds for free lunches). (health.com)
Only 41 percent of school districts and 60 percent of eligible charter schools signed on for changes needed to participate in the Obama administration's Race to the Top contest in which states can win extra federal funding to ease the impact of steep budget cuts. (edweek.org)
One encouraging sign in these scores was some progress in nearly two dozen of the state's very lowest performing schools that two years ago started receiving extra federal funding under the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program as long as they followed specific reforms. (b4njkids.org)