Sentences with phrase «free and reduced lunch while»

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While I feel bad that there is a divide, I do not believe that the answer to put the tator tots back on the free and reduced lunch program.

While it said there was «unclear» evidence that free school lunches raised attainment, it pointed to its own research on free school breakfasts in disadvantaged schools delivering similar academic benefits to free school lunches, but «significantly improved» behaviour and concentration, and reduced absences.

«The key finding is that while students prefer less - healthy school lunch options, income constraints, particularly for those students receiving free and reduced - price meals, cause these students to continue participating in the school lunch program and, hence, these students consume healthier meals,» Kropp said.

While the district was also beginning to see a greater range in terms of students» socioeconomic status, at the time of the initial course implementation, the district's rate of free and reduced lunch was approximately 10 - 12 percent.

Specifically, we calculate growth for schools based on math scores while taking into account students» prior performance in both math and communication arts; characteristics that include race, gender, free or reduced - price lunch eligibility (FRL), English - language - learner status, special education status, mobility status, and grade level; and school - wide averages of these student characteristics.

The students in Edison schools are disproportionately needy or of minority background; 65 percent are eligible for federal free or reduced - price lunches, while 55 percent are black and 17 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

Moreover, they do so while operating with similarly high percentages of students eligible for free / reduced lunch, similarly high student mobility rates, similar curriculum frameworks, and similar per - pupil expenditures.2

«While just 22 percent of students in Cumberland and 29 percent of students Lincoln receive free or reduced - price lunch, 86 percent in Central Falls and 75 percent in Pawtucket do so.

All of this has been done while the school, in the current economic climate, saw a 300 % rise in their numbers of free and reduced lunch.

Given the facts that student needs are rising — poverty rates across Wisconsin have been rapidly increasing, with about 40 percent of schoolchildren now eligible for free or reduced lunch — while financial support for schools at both the state and federal level is falling, they have a tall order in front of them.

While about 40 percent of Wiseburn students come from families with incomes low enough to qualify them for free and reduced - price lunch, in one important way, Wiseburn is a wealthy district.

And while urban schools report the highest rates of low - income students (60 percent), even in the nation's suburban schools 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

While just 22 % of students in Cumberland and 29 % of students Lincoln receive free or reduced - price lunch, 86 % in Central Falls and 75 % in Pawtucket do so.

In 2010, the percentage of students receiving free and reduced lunch climbed above 50 percent in the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, while the percentage of students of color grew to 60 percent.

Local districts would continue to provide transportation and food, including free or reduced lunches, to lab school students, while also redirecting state and local per - pupil dollars to the school's university leadership.

While there was initially some difficulty finding data on demographics and free or reduced - lunch, data was eventually retrieved from the National Center for Education Statistics.