Sentences with phrase «allows high poverty»

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a powerful new tool that allows high poverty schools and school divisions to offer breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

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Wisconsin allows adults with dependent children who earn around 100 percent of the poverty level — $ 11,880 — to enroll in Medicaid, and Maine and Tennessee each have slightly higher caps.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of collecting household applications.

It allows school meals to be served free of charge to all students at high - poverty schools.

CEP allows high - poverty schools to offer breakfast and lunch free to all students, and reduces administrative paperwork.

In August 2015, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a joint letter to the School Superintendents Association announcing that the CEP is expanding to allow all high - poverty school districts to offer free lunch and breakfast to students without requiring their families to submit applications.

We are simply asking that, in a borough that has the highest poverty rate in the nation and has consistently seen the highest unemployment numbers in New York State, Related and their future tenants provide living wage jobs with benefits that allow Bronxites a chance to provide for their families and to build a better life.

«Varietal testing is a necessary piece of the process of assuring high quality seed is available to farmers, and in turn that allows farmers to be productive and profitable, which leads to reduced levels of poverty and malnutrition,» says Goldsmith.

For the high - poverty population of students, having three - quarters of an hour to unload whatever baggage they brought into the classroom and leave it at the circle «allowed them to go about their business of being a student for the rest of the day.»

Garden State judges have ruled over school finance for 40 years, and the schools — especially the highest - poverty schools — have had a friend in court, being allowed to spend virtually whatever they want.

State policymakers should also examine policies that allow school districts to exclude teacher salaries from the calculations they must make to show that they provide an «equal» education to students at high - and low - poverty schools.

Established in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, the option allows schools in high - poverty areas to offer nutritious meals through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs to all students at no charge.

Established in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, community eligibility streamlines school meal operations and allows schools in high - poverty areas to offer nutritious breakfasts and lunches to all students at no charge.

Community eligibility allows high - poverty schools to offer school meals at no charge to all students while streamlining school meal program operations, including eliminating school meal applications, which many states and localities have used as the basis for distributing resources to schools and students.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

If we want to retain great teachers in high - poverty communities, we need to treat them like the experts they are and offer them conditions that allow them to do their jobs well.

But he is simultaneously relieved to have the power to make changes and worried that he won't be able to go far enough if the district doesn't allow him to make outside hires.Quitman a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth - graders in Newark's high - crime, high - poverty Central Ward has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others.

One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from high - poverty neighborhoods to attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.

Just fifteen years ago... high - poverty (MPS) schools were fully staffed with librarians, guidance counselors, full - time reading specialists, art, music and physical education specialists, program implementers, technology teachers, paraprofessionals, special education teachers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, speech pathologists, and classroom teachers with small classes that allowed them to provide plenty of individual attention to children.

At that time, Auer and other high - performing, high - poverty schools were fully staffed with librarians, guidance counselors, full - time reading specialists, art, music and physical education specialists, program implementers, technology teachers, paraprofessionals, special education teachers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, speech pathologists, and classroom teachers with small classes that allowed them to provide plenty of individual attention to children.

Baker acknowledges the controversy over whether reducing class sizes actually improves student outcomes, but asserts that classes should not be allowed to increase beyond 30 kids in a class in high poverty districts.

Harmful proposals, including diversion of federal monies from high - poverty schools and allowing parents to opt their children out of tests, were beaten back.

CEP allows high - poverty schools (those in which 40 percent or more of students qualify for free meals) to offer meals to all students at no charge.

CEP allows high - poverty schools (those in which 40 percent or more of students qualify for free meals) to offer meals to all students at no charge while reducing their administrative burden.

MMFA provides state support to allow high - poverty schools to serve breakfast in the classroom to all students, free of charge.

The Hunger - Free Schools Act of 2017 The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high - poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students.

Senator Scott supports taking this a big step further by allowing Title I money to flow into private schools as well, draining critical funds from high - poverty schools and turning Title I into a full - fledged voucher program.

CEP was created through the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, and allows qualifying high - poverty schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all students without requiring families to complete an annual household application.