Sentences with phrase «free and reduced lunch which»

The school is 99 % African - American and 99 % free and reduced lunch which has yet to be a hindrance to our students» success.

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The Yankton School District participates in the National School Lunch Program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which permits the school system to offer free and reduced priced meals to students who qualify.

It's worth noting that these complaints tend to come from parents at schools in which the free / reduced lunch population is low — most of these children are eating breakfast at home anyway, and the inconveniences and lost instructional time seem to outweigh any benefits of the program.

The Parsippany Hills, NJ high school mentioned in the Times report, at which school food is being boycotted, has about 1,100 kids, 5 % of whom — or 60 students — qualify for free and reduced lunch.

She found, for example, that the Kansas high school which produced the widely - viewed «We Are Hungry» video has only 83 students, 29 of whom qualify for free and reduced lunch.

Of course, I think there's also a larger issue at play here — which is that society shouldn't stigmatize those who can't afford breakfast or lunch at school and students certainly shouldn't make fun of those purchasing free or reduced lunches.

Todd Drafall, the district's business manager, said the schools are open to providing healthy food options but are limited by finances, which were further strained by a slight increase in the past few years of students qualifying for free and reduced - cost lunches.

This is certainly the intent of the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs, which offer free and reduced meals to children, based on their families» income, as well as full - price meals to any student.

Phillips oversees the Norfolk Public Schools» nutrition department in Virginia, which has about 63 % free and reduced price lunches.

At my younger child's elementary, which has quite a few kids who qualify for free and reduced lunch, the kids who don't qualify for the program are much more likely to bring a lunch from home.

By doing away with a la carte snacks, which had become the emblem of «I have money», and instead offering a variety of full meals (all of them covered under the free / reduced lunch program), we have achieved the ability to offer older students a wider variety of choices at lunchtime but also a fully equitable program, where literally there is no way to tell anymore who bought their meal and who is eating free.

The program, which began in three schools last year, now operates in 11 elementary schools around the city and in Cicero, where the population of students eligible for free or reduced lunches is 85 percent or higher.

Sal Valenza of the West New York School District in New Jersey, which also serves primarily Latino students who overwhelmingly receive free and reduced lunch, has also had positive feedback from the students and administrators, and says changes to nutritional standards nationwide could have a big impact.

The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students and have a very low percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

The school also has a record number of students qualifying for free and reduced lunches, which is a sign that many families are struggling financially and likely opting for cheaper, less healthy choices, she said.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

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.

Frankenberg evaluated data from the National Center for Education Statistics» Common Core of Data from 2006 to 2013, which provides annual school - level information about student's race and ethnicity, as well as free - and reduced - lunch data.

• Map performance on all of these measures against free and reduced - price lunch eligibility rates to determine which schools are truly excelling at educating low - income students and which schools are simply coasting along with an advantaged student body.

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

Test scores among students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds are higher in Texas than in Wisconsin, for example, which has fewer students qualifying for free - and reduced - price lunch.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Test scores among kids of all racial and ethnic backgrounds are higher in Texas than in Wisconsin, for example, which has fewer students qualifying for free - and reduced - price lunch.

Scholarship recipients in Florida must earn less than 185 % of the federal poverty line, which is the income threshold for the federal government's free and reduced lunch program.

Despite the model, the polished floors, new banners, and students outfitted in spiffy olive and khaki uniforms, the staff at Howland was quickly overwhelmed by the outsized needs of its student population, which was 100 percent African American and 98 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

About one - third of charter school students were eligible for free and reduced price lunch, which is about the same proportion as in all public schools.

The district is high poverty — more than 90 percent of students are on free and reduced - price lunch — and culturally and linguistically diverse, which has sometimes created obstacles when trying to get parents more involved, Crater explains.

Columns (4) and (9) report 2SLS estimates from specifications that add demographic controls, which include dummies for female, black, Hispanic, Asian, other race, special education, limited English proficiency, free / reduced price lunch, and a female * minority interaction.

In their unpublished research, which is now being peer - reviewed, Waddington and Berends studied the standardized test scores of low - income, public school students (grades 3 - 8) who qualified for free or reduced - price lunch and who used a voucher to switch to a private school.

Her suburban school, which reported about 74 percent of its students on free and reduced lunch last year, earned a school performance grade of «F» in 2014 - 2015 and experienced soaring teacher turnover of more than 26 percent.

Thirty - three percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch (which essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves).

We are a high - poverty, minority - majority school in which 80 percent of our students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch and 35 percent are English learners.

Bambrick - Santoyo credits his method with creating successful 90/90/90 schools (which means 90 % free or reduced - price lunch, 90 % students of color and 90 % proficiency).

Districts will verify their number of low - income students once every our years, which aligns with the requirements or federal free and reduced lunch qualification.

In the face of so many challenges and obstacles — designing new curricula aligned with Common Core, teaching a large population of English language learners and grappling with the reality that 75 percent of their students qualify for free or reduced price lunch — Burton's teachers wanted a protected, regular time slot to come together, look at data and figure out which of their teaching methods worked and which ones didn't so they could bring their students along on a path toward success.

The Cabarrus County district, which includes Concord, N.C., has 39 schools and 30,000 students, 43 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

So the 5,000 - student district — which is 49 percent Hispanic and 44 percent white, with about 25 percent qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch — decided to radically alter its high school.

These last two were key factors for the kids who attended the pilot, 86 % of which qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, since transportation access and food security are economic barriers to school choice for families who have lower household incomes.

In support of this goal, CEL staff and consultants have provided job - embedded training, modeling instructional strategies and coaching teachers within the context of their schools and their classrooms It's happening, for example, in Vernon Parish at West Leesville Elementary, which houses grades two through four, with 70 % of students qualifying for Free and Reduced Lunch.

The program would provide $ 1,000 for each «gifted and talented» student who is already eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches, which means the household's annual income is at or below $ 45,510 annually for a family of four.

Also, if you read one stat from the WR article, a significant gap was free and reduced lunch, which isn't all minorities and is a reflection of poverty not race alone.

For example, a 2010 New York state charter school law requiring charter schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to address gaps in English language learner and special education enrollment at charter schools — might mean, if enforced, that a school in upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income status.64

The program has a 10 percent window of families that must pay a monthly tuition fee, because they don't meet the eligibility requirements — which, as in Dallas ISD's program, stipulate eligible four year - olds must have limited English proficiency, qualify for free or reduced lunch, be homeless or in foster care, and / or have a parent active in the military, as Breitbart Texas reported.

Special - education students and those who are eligible for free - or - reduced - price lunch qualify for differentiated aid, which helps districts cover additional expenses associated with those students.

We meet Principal Garcia of P.S. 65, a low - performing school in which 99 percent of students receive free or reduced - priced lunch and the majority are from immigrant families.

Cross-referencing those schools with the Free and Reduced Lunch data (which is often used as an indicator of low income status), we can see that the schools that qualify have significantly fewer socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Over half of the 2013 honorees serve a student body more than 40 percent of which is eligible for free and reduced price lunch.

We use panel data in Washington State to study the extent to which teacher assignments between fourth and eighth grade explain gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students — as defined by underrepresented minority status (URM) and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL)-- in their eighth grade math test scores and high school course taking.

We find schools that are hyper - segregated by race; and we find schools that do not reflect the cultural and economic profile of the communities in which they are situated (for as Ms Lecker reports charter schools underserve English language learners and they often underserve the most economically disadvantaged children, as measured by eligibility for free and reduced lunches).