Sentences with phrase «child federal reimbursement»

That is exactly what Rebecca Mozaffarian, project manager for the Harvard Prevention Research Center, set out to do in her work with YMCA afterschool programs around the country where they were charged with finding healthier snack and drink alternatives to fit within the 76 - cent per child federal reimbursement for afterschool programs.

Not exact matches

As for their salaries, the «operation of the program» is funded through (a) federal reimbursement, which is derived from taxpayer dollars and (b) cash payments from district parents who can afford to pay for all or a portion of their children's meals.

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.

They also would help ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals benefit low - income children.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

If all states met FRAC's goal of reaching 70 low - income children at breakfast for every 100 at school lunch, an additional 3 million students would have access to a healthy breakfast, and schools would have access to an additional $ 836 million in federal reimbursements.

Often, they use part of the federal reimbursements for meals served to low - income children.

Such changes also would help low - income children obtain the full benefit of federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

As explained below, two possible uses of school food revenue — subsidizing paid meals and providing competitive foods — raise concerns that low - income children may not be getting the full benefit of the federal reimbursements intended for those meals.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

It's in the school's best interest to make sure all children who qualify for free meals apply for them: The more children who are eligible for free meals, the higher the reimbursements the school receives from the federal government.

For children coming from low - income households, the federal reimbursement rate for lunch is around $ 3.33.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.

In the meantime, while the pending child nutrition legislation in Congress seeks to raise federal reimbursement for school meals by a mere six cents — rather than the one dollar advocated by reformers like Chef Ann — we need to exploit every opportunity to bring more funds to schools.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

Tables showing the per meal federal reimbursement rates for the Afterschool Meal Program and Summer Food Service Program, as well as projected annual program income based on the number of children served.

But the district's classified employees like bus drivers will lose a day's pay and child nutrition will forfeit about $ 100,000 in federal reimbursement for meals.

But in its recent reauthorization of child nutrition programs, Congress» direction is that federal reimbursement funds should really go for meals and delivering those meals,» she said.

The article notes a recent Supreme Court case, Board of Education v. Tom F. that let stand a decision permitting a wealthy parent to obtain reimbursement for private school education under federal law, even where the parent did not give the public school an opportunity to address the child's needs and immediately places the child in private school.

The domination of federal child welfare services funding by worker training, reimbursement of foster parents, case management for children in foster care, and adoption subsidies (all entitlements under Title IV - E of the Social Security Act) leaves few resources to develop or implement high - quality parent education.

The bill restricts certain State claims for Federal reimbursement of administrative costs under the Federal foster care program; clarifies the use of Medicaid targeted case management services for children in foster care; includes substantial cuts to programs; and reauthorizes TANF, adding new work requirements while providing almost no funding increase in child care.

Strengthening Families and Communities: Creative Strategies for Financing Post-Adoption Services: A White Paper Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice (2003) Provides a framework for States to maximize Federal reimbursements for child welfare services by identifying State general funds that can be used to support a comprehensive mix of postadoption support, education, training, and therapeutic and treatment servChild Welfare Practice (2003) Provides a framework for States to maximize Federal reimbursements for child welfare services by identifying State general funds that can be used to support a comprehensive mix of postadoption support, education, training, and therapeutic and treatment servchild welfare services by identifying State general funds that can be used to support a comprehensive mix of postadoption support, education, training, and therapeutic and treatment services.