Sentences with phrase «because meal participation»
However, this rate was reduced to $ 0.022 for June 2008 because meal participation exceeded the appropriation cap for 2007 - 08.
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Because higher participation rates allow for economies of scale, a decrease in participation could drive up the cost per meal.
I believe that there was pressure from Food Services (under different leadership) to end that policy, possibly because it was affecting meal participation.
Such problems could exist districtwide, Sullivan suggested, because of the financial incentives for schools to boost participation in the free - and reduced - price meal program and because of the lack of verification.
When we change from traditional universal free breakfast to universal free classroom breakfast we see a 300 to 500 % increase in participation at that school because we have removed several barriers to participation including the stigma of the free and reduced meal program, students who arrive at school just before the bell or who would rather play and socialize during the traditional before school breakfast period.
At the other end of the economic spectrum, there are some schools which, because they have very low numbers of low income students, choose to forego participation in the Federal school meals programs altogether and just run their own meal program under their own rules.