Sentences with phrase «as free lunch status»

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CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

Regardless of whether Title I remains in its traditional form or is converted in some part to vouchers, districts will face major challenges allocating resources based on individual student economic status as community eligibility for free lunch eliminates the incentive for individual students to report their poverty status.

And since only 1 % of children at Hunter Elementary qualify for free lunch status, it can be seen as a case of the rich getting richer and hoarding resources that might be better spent on underprivileged students.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

The Free and Reduced Price lunch definition has become fairly sketchy, so in the below comparisons I will make use of parental education as a proxy for socio - economic status.

We used percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunch as a proxy for socioeconomic status (SES).

However, the percent of test - takers who are eligible for free and reduced lunch has fluctuated from year to year, and NAEP results have increased not just across race, but across all subgroups such as gender, disability status, and ELL status.

Academic data was collected on approximately 900 participants of the program in 2007 as well as a comparison group comprised of approximately 700 DPS students who did not attend the program and were of similar academic proficiency, grade level, gender, race / ethnicity and free and reduced lunch status.

The DOE also issued a regulation permitting schools to use to information about children's eligibility for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program as a means of determining students» socioeconomic status for school assignment purposes.

(Note on calculations: I used the appendix information on how test scores varied with free and reduced price lunch status, pre-K participation, and pre-K participation interacted with free and reduced price lunch status, as well as published information on the standard deviation of test scores at kindergarten entrance.

Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country, status as students with disabilities, and status as students identified as English language learners.

They examined a variety of factors, such as student gender, age, health, socioeconomic status, education of parents, whether the school was urban or suburban, the number of years of experience among teachers, the school's average test performance and the rate of free - or reduced - price lunch program participation.

Cross-referencing those schools with the Free and Reduced Lunch data (which is often used as an indicator of low income status), we can see that the schools that qualify have significantly fewer socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

A recent analysis examined 2013 NAEP scores among states after adjusting for various demographic characteristics of each states» student population, such as eligibility for free and reduced price lunch, status as ELLs, and other factors.

We use panel data in Washington State to study the extent to which teacher assignments between fourth and eighth grade explain gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students — as defined by underrepresented minority status (URM) and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL)-- in their eighth grade math test scores and high school course taking.

But perhaps this problem has never been stated as starkly as in a recent paper examining the distribution of teacher quality in Washington state: «We demonstrate that in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms (both math and reading), every measure of teacher quality — experience, licensure exam score, and value - added estimates of effectiveness — is inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantage — free / reduced lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance.»

School lunch eligibility status (free, reduced price, and full price) also served as a proxy for socioeconomic status.