Sentences with phrase «at free and reduced lunch»

«Even when the studies did look at free and reduced lunch or socioeconomic status of the kids... they still in many cases did not find a correlation between AP and college success,» Pope said in an interview.

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Initiatives include the Backpack Food Program where the foundation partners with local food banks and schools to provide knapsacks filled with nutritious, easy - to - prepare, nonperishable food for students who are at risk for hunger when free or - reduced price school lunches are unavailable.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

Any public school containing these grades with a minimum enrollment of 125 students per school site, have a breakfast program, and serve at least 40 % of its lunches to free and reduced price meals shall be eligible for a state financial supplement.

Roughly 183,500 free or reduced - price lunches were served at Niles North and Niles West high schools last year, district documents show.

Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.

The report alleged 11 school employees and two other district employees who did not work at the school falsified applications to enroll their children for free or reduced - price lunches.

It's worth noting that these complaints tend to come from parents at schools in which the free / reduced lunch population is low — most of these children are eating breakfast at home anyway, and the inconveniences and lost instructional time seem to outweigh any benefits of the program.

The Parsippany Hills, NJ high school mentioned in the Times report, at which school food is being boycotted, has about 1,100 kids, 5 % of whom — or 60 students — qualify for free and reduced lunch.

More than 70 percent of District of Columbia Public School students are eligible for free and reduced price lunch, and many of these students acquire a majority of their total daily nutrition at school.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

Of course, I think there's also a larger issue at play here — which is that society shouldn't stigmatize those who can't afford breakfast or lunch at school and students certainly shouldn't make fun of those purchasing free or reduced lunches.

At grade school level they seem to just keep track of who got a lunch and then bill the parents after (if you don't qualify for free / reduced lunch).

Somehow reading this article and looking over and over at the graphics of the neediest States using the free or reduced lunch program slightly eased my own shame and / or guilt; because I still hardly believe this is our reality.

Nearly 750 pupils signed up for free or reduced - price meals, the district reported, and now the district serves an average of only two alternate lunches a day at each of the system's 87 schools.

With districts that have lower percentages of kids on the free and reduced lunch program (like mine at 22 %), it's harder because you have less volume in purchasing and less funds for developing the program.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their choices.

At my younger child's elementary, which has quite a few kids who qualify for free and reduced lunch, the kids who don't qualify for the program are much more likely to bring a lunch from home.

The National School Lunch Program provides children from low - income families access to wholesome, nutritious meals — including lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced Lunch Program provides children from low - income families access to wholesome, nutritious meals — including lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced rate.

By doing away with a la carte snacks, which had become the emblem of «I have money», and instead offering a variety of full meals (all of them covered under the free / reduced lunch program), we have achieved the ability to offer older students a wider variety of choices at lunchtime but also a fully equitable program, where literally there is no way to tell anymore who bought their meal and who is eating free.

● Number of kids served at CRHS: 633 ● Change in lunch participation since salad bar implementation: 20 % increase ● Percentage who are eligible for free and reduced meals: 35 - 40 % ● Kids» favorite salad bar items: Tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, shredded carrots, jalapenos

As a pediatrician, it is very worrisome to me that the children most likely to be eligible to receive free or reduced - price school lunch are exactly those who are at greatest risk for obesity and Type II diabetes: Latinos and African - Americans.

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

In Wake County, N.C., school and political leaders integrated the school system by putting a 40 percent limit on the percent of students who qualify for free or reduced priced lunch at each school.

If the grant only serves districts with more than half their students from families poor enough to qualify for the free and reduced lunch program, as some of the grant programs do, J - E, at 34 percent, would not qualify.

They measured educational outcomes using standardized tests and looked at demographic data, including attendance and suspension; race and ethnicity; free and reduced price lunch status; and participation in gifted education, special education, or programs for English learners.

Students more likely to participate in free - and reduced - price lunch programs are among the same populations most likely to suffer from obesity and related health risks, said Janet Peckham, an economist in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lead author of the study.

• Map performance on all of these measures against free and reduced - price lunch eligibility rates to determine which schools are truly excelling at educating low - income students and which schools are simply coasting along with an advantaged student body.

At Waiʻanae High School, one of the program sites, nearly 95 percent of students are people of color — 60 percent of those are Native Hawaiian — and roughly 70 percent of all students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

While the district was also beginning to see a greater range in terms of students» socioeconomic status, at the time of the initial course implementation, the district's rate of free and reduced lunch was approximately 10 - 12 percent.

Apart from their learning environment, these eight 3rd graders are just like their peers at Lee Elementary, where 77 percent receive free or reduced - priced lunch, an indicator of poverty, and many report not having computer access at home.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

09, then - principal at the Donald McKay K - 8 School, described by Abeyta as «90 percent Hispanic, 90 percent free and reduced lunch, 50 percent second - language learners.»

Schools are reimbursed by the Department of Agriculture at a rate of $ 2.14 for free school lunches, $ 1.74 for reduced - price lunches, and 20 cents for regular lunches.

About half the students are from various minority groups, and the number qualifying for free or reduced - cost lunch ranges from 9 percent at some schools to 74 percent at others.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

Despite the model, the polished floors, new banners, and students outfitted in spiffy olive and khaki uniforms, the staff at Howland was quickly overwhelmed by the outsized needs of its student population, which was 100 percent African American and 98 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

St. Anthony, with nearly 1,400 students at the time, was 99 percent Latino, and nearly all of its students qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

Fewer than 21 percent of Nevada's fourth - graders and eighth - graders who qualified for free or reduced price lunch were at or above grade level.

Many low - income students rely on school for both breakfast and lunch, provided free or at a reduced price.

For the vast majority of public schools, approval to receive free and / or reduced - price lunches (FRPL) has been the sole, or at least the primary, indicator of low family income under Title I.

Approximately 95 percent of students are Latino or African - American and 85 percent receive free or reduced lunch at OUHS.

• In Washington, D.C., we found that students eligible for free - and reduced price lunch enrolled in top scoring schools at around the same rates as their more advantaged peers.

However, when one looks at the Census data for those two towns it is apparent that Salem has a higher percentage of students living in poverty and higher percentages of children eligible for free lunch and that Harrison has more students eligible for reduced lunch.

At the time of our study, 31 % of the students in the district qualified for free and reduced - price lunches, and the school had a 35 % non-white (mostly Hispanic) population.

Rusty Hall, principal of Old Town Elementary in Winston - Salem, says all of the students at his «low - performing school» qualify for free and reduced lunch.

At the time, state data showed that, among Indiana schools with more than 90 percent of students receiving free or reduced price lunch, Christel House had higher test scores than every other charter school and all but a handful of traditional public schools.