Sentences with phrase «federal school meal reimbursement»

In some school cafeterias, the sales of competitive foods end up being subsidized by federal school meal reimbursement.

-LSB-...] Nutrition Association, an organization of 55,000 professionals, has asked Congress (albeit half - heartedly) for a 35 cent increase in federal school meal reimbursement.

Investing more money in federal school meal reimbursement, so schools can afford to buy healthier food and pay for the increased labor needed to prepare it;

Chances are, it wouldn't result in your school losing its federal school meal reimbursements.

The same fines (loss of daily federal school meal reimbursements) can now be imposed under the new federal scheme, and they seem to be regarded by some Houston principals with the same jaded eye.

Not exact matches

NSBA says the new nutritional standards will just widen the gap between what schools pay to provide free meals and the federal reimbursement rates.

The new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

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.

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[24] Since the federal reimbursement for a free meal is $ 2.68 (see Table 1), the revenue generated by each paid meal in these districts falls 61 cents short in elementary schools and 27 cents short in high schools, on average.

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.

First, Congress could ensure that federal per - meal reimbursements are not used to cover costs associated with foods offered outside of the federal school meals programs.

In these schools, the combined average revenue for paid meals is $ 2.05 for elementary schools and $ 2.42 for high schools, and the federal reimbursement for a free meal for the 2009 - 2010 school year is $ 2.68.

School districts have broad discretion over the use of the revenues they receive, including federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

It could do so by requiring school districts that charge lower prices to increase prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.

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.

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

There is no regulatory requirement that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals be spent only on those meals or that records differentiate between the costs and revenues of the various aspects of the school food program.

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.

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.

If districts selling deep fried snacks are caught doing so in a school food audit, they will have to pay back their federal meal reimbursements for each day the violations occurred.

Somehow Los Angeles USD and other districts around the country are serving school meals on the same federal reimbursement as everyone else and not serving beef with pink slime.

Calculations by the nonprofit National School Boards Association suggest the guidelines could add 11 cents to 25 cents per meal; the new rules, by contrast, would raise the federal reimbursement by only 6 cents.

Thus, school districts wind up diverting to a la carte sales substantial portions of the federal cash reimbursements intended to subsidize healthy meals.

lRaise the federal reimbursement by 6 cents per lunch for school districts that comply with new meals standards to be issued by the Agriculture Department.

For most Vermont schools, the per - meal reimbursement and commodities provided by the federal school breakfast and lunch programs is not sufficient to cover all of these school meal program costs.

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 example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

[* Editor's Note: All school districts receive the same federal meal reimbursement based on each participating student's socioeconomic status.

Kentucky districts participating in the national school meal programs served more than 128 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 265 million in federal reimbursements.

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Alabama districts participating in national school meal programs served more than 129 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 272 million in federal reimbursements through the national school breakfast and lunch programs.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

A plurality of respondents reported that the federal reimbursements for school breakfast and lunch were not sufficient to cover the costs of producing a meal in the 2015/16 school year.

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.

Right now, the federal reimbursements for school meals are so woefully inadequate that food service directors have less than a dollar to spend on creating a healthy lunch.

School board officials said The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires them to change pricing because the law states that schools must charge on average no less for paid student meals than the district receives in federal free meal reimbursement.

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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.)

Advocates can expand the Afterschool Meal Program and obtain federal reimbursement using proven outreach strategies, including promoting the program, building relationships with afterschool and out - of - school time provider networks, connecting sites to available community resources, and working closely with the state agency.

And, in a time of increasing costs and decreasing revenues, some district leaders and food advocates worry whether 6 cents will allow schools to serve healthier fare, when the current federal reimbursement of $ 2.72 per free meal already has many school programs running in the red.

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.

With low federal reimbursement rates for school meals (42 cents for paid meals, $ 2.81 for reduced - price meals and $ 3.21 for free meals), the added cost of healthy food gets passed on to families that can least afford it.