Sentences with phrase «federal free or reduced price lunch»

Public high schools in the United States with more than 40 percent of students participating in the federal free or reduced price lunch program are eligible to apply.

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In order to get the cash subsidies, the schools have to provide lunches that meet the federal requirements AND provide free or reduced - price lunches to eligible students.

The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced - price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.

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.

In the last four years, 55 CPS employees have now been accused of defrauding the federal school lunch program by enrolling ineligible children for free or reduced - price lunches, a pattern of abuse that highlights problems at every level of the program, Sullivan said.

But given that the National School Lunch Program already IS the ultimate nanny state program — a daily, free or reduced price hand - out of food, administered by the federal government — why is merely improving the food served so controversial on the right?

Eligible high schools are those in which 50 percent or more of the students are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch program.

K12 students are modestly less likely to participate in the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (40 vs. 47 percent), roughly as likely to be classified as having a learning disability (9 vs. 12 percent), and much less likely to be English language learners (less than 1 vs. 14 percent).

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from low - income families (defined as those making less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced - price lunch).

In particular, we know each student's gender, ethnicity, whether they received free or reduced - price lunch through the federal lunch program, whether they were English language learners or received special education services, and their record of suspensions and absences from school.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

In this district, families that are not eligible for the federal lunch program are about twice as likely to make a request as those that are eligible: 30 percent of families who are not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch make a request compared with only 13 percent of eligible families.

Fifty - three percent of students were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

Nearly all of the school's students, in kindergarten through eighth grade, are African - American and eligible for free or reduced - priced lunch, according to the most recently available federal data.

At least 40 % of the students a scholarship organization awards scholarships to must have qualified for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program in the final year they attended public school.

The students in Edison schools are disproportionately needy or of minority background; 65 percent are eligible for federal free or reduced - price lunches, while 55 percent are black and 17 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

To complete her analysis, Cascio compared the academic outcomes of preschoolers who qualified for federal free - or reduced - price lunch programs, a standard measure of poverty, in states that offered universal preschool to similar preschoolers in states that offered only targeted preschool.

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

According to Kate Baker, the president of NEO, the reimbursement model has been «a significant burden» for many families.25 Since NEO prioritizes based on need, 98 percent of homeschooling scholarship families in the first year of the program had a total household income that would have qualified them for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (185 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 43,568 for a family of four in 2012 - 13), including 77 percent who would have qualified for a «free lunch» (130 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 30,615 for a family of four in 2012 - 13).26

By David McClendon and Jenny Eyer, Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation Across Texas, over 3 million low - income students qualify for free or reduced - price school meals through federal programs such as the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast...

Desert Trails, where 100 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches, ranks in the bottom third of California schools with similar demographics and has been stuck on the federal watch list for failing schools for six years.

Of students entering the scholarship program from public school for the first time, 70.7 percent previously attended a D or F public school, 92.6 % qualified for federal free and reduced - price lunch, and 5.2 % had an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

Programs limited to small populations, such as students eligible for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, tend only to fill empty seats at existing private schools but don't do much to encourage innovation or even the expansion of existing options.

In addition, the traditional schools have a slightly higher percentage of students who qualify for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program.»

KIPP alumni are predominantly low - income students of color, the network says: 95 percent are African - American or Latino and nearly 90 percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch under federal poverty guidelines.

According to California Department of Education data for 2014 - 15, 68 percent of Long Beach students qualified for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of economic need.

Two options were explored for reaching parents with the program: Chapter I pilot schools (schools which qualify for federal funds based on economic and achievement criteria, e.g. those which serve a high number of free or reduced - price lunches and also have a large number of children under - achieving on group tests), and adult education programs.