Sentences with phrase «federal funding for school meals»

In 2006, the USDA required all school districts receiving federal funding for school meals to create a wellness policy that addressed food - related policies, nutrition education, and physical activity.

And its conclusions make it all the more dismaying that the pending Child Nutrition Reauthorization in Congress does not include any meaningful raise in federal funding for school meals.

One important point in the piece: federal funding for school meals is highly unlikely to increase under Trump — and, indeed, it could well be slashed.

Not exact matches

It is presenting these meals under the supervision of the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal funding in exchange for meeting certain requirements.

By increasing children's participation in federal school breakfast and summer meals programs, the No Kid Hungry North Carolina program could not only offer kids more food but also could garner more federal funds for the state, according to WRAL.

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.

By placing some parameters on school food budgets as part of reauthorization legislation, Congress could generate funds for the meals programs and ensure that federal funds are spent on the purposes that it intends.

The loss of federal funds has stung city school officials, who started the program with the idea that they would get federal money to help pay for the free meals, which are being served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various elementary schools during the strike.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

And I know that schools have huge incentives for having more kids on the list to receive the free meals as that allows them more federal funding.

The number of students who qualify for a free or discounted meal based on income levels also matters because schools and entire school systems may qualify for grants and other federal funding based on the reported level of need among students.

Nearly all high - poverty schools that are eligible for community eligibility also are eligible to receive federal funding for afterschool meals.

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.)

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.

As school meal participation increases, school districts draw down the associated additional federal and state - funded reimbursements for meals served.

The Act provides funding for schools to meet the federal school nutrition requirements for school meals.

After months of negotiations, Los Angeles Unified has agreed to repay over $ 55 million for a series of internal misallocations involving federal school meal funding.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) provides funding for six major federal school meal and child nutrition programs:

HHFKA provides funding for federal school meal and child nutrition programs.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

Federal program funds are distributed through VDOE to participating school divisions and residential child care institutions for meals and snacks served to students.