Sentences with phrase «federal school meal funding»

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.

It is part of a campaign to increase federal school meal funding.

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So before we ever see federal funding levels adequate to finance «real food,» «clean label» meals like those in this Minnesota district, it's going to take a truly seismic shift in how our nation thinks generally about food and the feeding of its school children.

As I understand it, because the Trump proposal is only looking (right now) at discretionary spending, it has no effect on the mandatory funding of federal school meal programs, including the lunch and breakfast program.

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

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.

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.

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.

But if Congress increases reimbursement rates without reforming the use of federal funds in school food budgets, the end result could be significant costs to taxpayers coupled with little improvement in the quality of meals served.

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.

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.

If increases in reimbursement rates prove desirable, the changes discussed here would help ensure that the added federal funds are actually used to provide more nutritious school meals.

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School lunches have to follow certain meal pattern requirements to receive federal reimbursement funds.

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.

While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal.

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

Woldow recognizes that SNA makes these recommendations with an eye to the fiscal bottom line of school meal programs, and that schools need more federal funding to carry out the mandates of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

Recommendation 2: Federal, state, and local governments should prioritize making funds available to help schools upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure to efficiently serve healthy and appealing meals.

A 2015 KSHF - commissioned series of case studies of 19 schools in seven states explored the effects of these federal kitchen equipment grants on students and meal programs and found that equipment bought with these funds helped many schools overcome challenges reported in the 2013 study.

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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.)

Leah Schmidt, president of the School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost meals.

He added that the homegrown school feeding programme would proceed this week with the addition of five states to be getting federal government's funding to ensure that primary school pupils there start enjoying one hot meal a day.»

Congress was supposed to reauthorize the Child Nutrition Act, the federal legislation that determines federally - funded school meals, this fall but has yet to do so.

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 ability of schools to offer meals other than lunch has been limited by high food costs, shrinking school budgets, and reduced federal reimbursements and funding to maintain school kitchens.

Congress was supposed to reauthorize the Child Nutrition Act, the federal legislation that determines federally funded school meals, this fall but has yet to do so.

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

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

HHFKA is the major piece of legislation that funds 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.