Sentences with phrase «nutrition block grant»

House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school - lunch program and wrap its funding into a child - nutrition block grant to the states.

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The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

«We can't guess what going to happen... (State block grant funding) probably would mean the elimination of national nutrition standards.»

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

DHR is the lead state agency for the federal child care subsidy funds, while Bright From the Start manages the state pre-kindergarten program, the federal child nutrition program, all child care center licensing and registering of family child care homes, and the quality and infant — toddler set - asides of the state's portion of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

The committee also finalized its proposal to replace the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) with a Family Nutrition Block Grant, as well as its proposed Child Care Block Grant, which would consolidate nine different federal child - care programs.

Block grants school nutrition programs in three states, a dangerous idea that will put further strain on state and local school districts» budgets and jeopardize children's access to quality, healthy school meals no matter where they live.

The «Contract with America» includes welfare - reform provisions to cut all child nutrition entitlement programs in favor of block grants to the states.

Senate Republican leaders indicated last week that they may not include provisions in their welfare - reform bill that would convert the federal school - meals and child - nutrition programs into block grants, as its House counterpart would do.

(District of Columbia) A new federal block grant aimed at helping schools provide a «well - rounded education» can be used in a wide variety ways — from nutrition and health care, to music and foreign language instruction, according to new guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Education.

«SNA members look forward to educating their representatives on the dangers that block grant proposals pose for our students, and how Congress can support critical school nutrition programs.»

SNA has issued a new call on Congress to oppose any school meal block grant proposal and provide greater support to school nutrition programs, which contribute to the health and academic success of students.