Not exact matches
Last week the Associated Press ran a widely disseminated article indicating that: some
schools around the country are
dropping out of the healthier new federal
lunch program, complaining that so many students turned up their noses at meals packed... [Continue reading]
Do you feel that the
school lunch program will
drop below that critical mass level if 10 - 15 %
of participating kids
drop out?
Domino's, Schwan's and General Mills all increased their K - 12 food service sales last year even through more than a million students have
dropped out of the National
School Lunch Program since nutrition changes kicked in.
Micheline Piekarski, president
of the Illinois
School Food Service Association, said some
schools might find it cheaper to
drop out of subsidized
lunch programs altogether and offer more expensive, less nutritious ala carte menus instead
of full meals.
TLT Kid - and - Food hero Janet Poppendieck cites in «Free for All» that as a result
of this legislation, «Nearly 2,700
schools dropped out of the program, and as
lunch prices jumped in
schools across the nation, participation by full price students declined from 15.3 million in 1979 to 11.2 million in 1983.
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department says 524
schools —
out of about 100,000 — have
dropped out of the federally subsidized national
school lunch program since the government introduced new standards for healthier foods last year.
I get up early, take care
of the dogs, coffee, the girls, their
lunch boxes, breakfast — then
out the door for
school drop - off.
At Liberty, a
school for students at risk
of dropping out where 87 percent
of students are eligible for free or reduced price
lunch — a measure
of poverty — the faculty has attended multiple district - run trainings on the new standards and overhauled lesson plans.
For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter
school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent
of the
school district's net
school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment
of a commonwealth charter
school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record
of operating at least 1
school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed
school seeks to serve, from the following categories
of students, those: (i) eligible for free
lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price
lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient
of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams
of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2
of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk
of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have
dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups
of students.
You wake up and the kids»
school uniforms aren't washed, there's no bread to make sandwiches for their
lunch, the sheets and towels from the trip have been tossed in the laundry along with an inexplicably enormous bag
of dirty underwear, you've run
out of toilet paper and are reduced to scrounging for Kleenex, the front hall is piled halfway to the ceiling with suitcases plus six recycling bags filled with detritus from the trip... and you have to walk the Sprogs to
school because Husband has
dropped the car in for a service.