Sentences with phrase «for children eligible for free schools meals»

From April 2016, it will be worth # 1,150 for every child eligible for free school meals.

Schools began receiving the pupil premium - # 430 per year extra for every child eligible for free school meals - in April this year.

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Note, if a child is eligible for a free school meal the duty is not to discriminate and we believe this means that a vegan option should be provided.

children eligible for free & reduced - price meals participated in school breakfast on an average school day

The School Breakfast Program is one of several Child Nutrition Programs sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture and administered by the Ohio Department of Education, which provides meal reimbursements for students eligible for free or reduced - price meals.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification raFree Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rafree meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rafree meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

The bad is that fewer than one in five children eligible for the program nationwide use it - 2 million a day last summer, compared with the 12 million who get free or reduced - price meals during the school year, according to federal estimates.

Schools and child care centers must have 80 % or more students eligible for free or reduced priced school meals

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.

In an effort to combat hunger, it would also raise the number of children eligible for free or reduced - cost meals and expand after - school snack programs to provide full meals.

The $ 4.5 - billion bill makes another 115,000 children eligible for free or reduced - price lunches, and provides 29 million more meals a year in after - school programs.

This one is extraordinary: Schools with 40 % or more of children eligible for free or reduced - price meals will be able to serve free breakfasts and free lunches to every student in the school, regardless of family income.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

In Wales a similar scheme, created by the Welsh Liberal Democrats and known as the Pupil Deprivation Grant is worth # 918 for each child over the age of five eligible for free school meals.

The PDG provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on eligible for Free School Meals (e-FSM) and also for those children who are looked after (LAC).

«The poorest children are already eligible for free school meals — the main beneficiaries of this new universal benefit will be middle and upper - income households, who really don't need a public subsidy.»

The head teacher Nathan Atkinson believes that children who are eligible for free school meals, should be eligible 52 weeks of the year and not just during term time.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

Labour MP Frank Field has garnered cross party backing from more than 100 MPs for a Bill to automatically register children for free school meals if they are eligible.

The new pricing structure means state - funded schools benefit from a 15 % discount and those with a higher than average number of children receiving free school meals will be eligible for 60 % off the standard rate.

Hon Michael Gove, he outlined his commitment to support these children when he stressed the tragic fact that out of the 120,000 children that enter compulsory education each year and are eligible for free school meals, only 40 graduate from university.

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

It also becomes very obvious which children are eligible for free school meals (FSM).

The case for catering Regarding catering, a cashless system can potentially prevent discrimination — paying by cash makes it very obvious which children are eligible for free school meals (FSM), but if all meals are paid for the same way, then this is no longer the case.

It found that just 24 per cent of children eligible for free school meals attend higher education compared to 42 per cent of children from more privileged backgrounds.

The Country Trust raises funds to ensure that farm visits are offered at no charge to schools with a higher than average percentage of children eligible for Free School Meals (and therefore Pupil Premium).

Bexley said it had the second - highest rate in the city of children at grammar schools eligible for free school meals — three per cent — behind Redbridge.

The Pupil Development Grant (PDG) helps schools tackle the effects of poverty and disadvantage on attainment and is targeted at learners who are eligible for Free School Meals or are Looked After Children.

It found that just 24 % of children eligible for free school meals attend higher education compared to 42 % of children from more privileged backgrounds.

«Children will be recorded as eligible for free school meals who wouldn't have been under the old system, but then they will not be eligible when the new system is introduced next year,» he said.

The Families of Schools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional laSchools database is a free tool that groups similar schools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional laschools together on factors including prior attainment, percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and the number of children who speak English as an additional language.

In 21 schools, a quota of children currently or previously eligible for free school meals are admitted separately from other applicants.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

Another important piece of research is this work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which found in 2013 that grammar schools were disproportionately unlikely to admit bright students who were eligible for free school meals or from poorer neighbourhoods and disproportionately likely to admit children from private primary schools.

But payment is based on whether children are eligible for free school meals and if families do not register to claim, the school does not get the money.

«It has maintained its status as the top performing region across all key stages when it comes to the performance of children eligible for free school meals,» he said.

Children eligible for free school meals are four times more likely to be permanently excluded than their peers, and three times more likely to be excluded for fixed periods.

It would see up to # 2,000 of extra funding made available at a school for each child who is eligible for free meals.

Schools where over 40 % of pupils are eligible for free meals will lose most, say National Union of Teachers and Child Poverty Action Group researchers.

The government claims the changes in eligibility will mean that 50,000 more pupils will become eligible for free school meals, while Labour and the Children's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes intChildren's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes intchildren who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes into force.

«The need for parents to register their children as eligible for free school meals means that many children miss out.

The premium is available for children who are, or have been over the previous six years, eligible for free school meals or in care

The Pupil Deprivation Grant promises to pass the money directly to schools, based on the number of children eligible for free school meals.

The government points to areas such as Nottingham, where a high proportion of children are eligible for free school meals and results are below the national average.

«Just 8 % of children eligible for free school meals were entered for the EBacc subjects last year compared to 22 % overall.

The idea is that students eligible for free school meals move to the head of the admissions queue, immediately behind looked after children, for any school in the country, regardless of catchment area.