Sentences with phrase «available federal school meal»

Participate in available federal school meal programs, including the School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program (including after - school snacks), Summer Food Service Program, Fruit and Vegetable Snack Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program (including suppers).

To the maximum extent possible, the district will participate in available federal school meal programs.

Not exact matches

Yet when Beckwith takes a meal through the federal school lunch program, milk is the only beverage available.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

Every district participating in the federal meals program is required to have a written policy that includes nutrition guidelines for all foods available at school (hello, birthday cupcakes!)

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

Recommendation 2: Federal, state, and local governments should prioritize making funds available to help schools upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure to efficiently serve healthy and appealing meals.

Ensure that students have access to healthy foods during the school day — through both school meals and other foods available throughout the school campus — in accordance with federal and New York State nutrition standards.

«School nutrition employees must balance many roles and follow numerous federal, state and local regulations to ensure safe and healthy meals are available in schools.

Advocates can expand the Afterschool Meal Program and obtain federal reimbursement using proven outreach strategies, including promoting the program, building relationships with afterschool and out - of - school time provider networks, connecting sites to available community resources, and working closely with the state agency.

Many public schools still do not provide free or reduced cost meals to students eligible to receive them, even though federal funding is available for those meals.

Gentzel calls for the elimination of overly prescriptive requirements, urging Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to «grant autonomy and relief for school districts to successfully administer school meal programs by enacting policy to make implementation feasible within available federal resources.»