Sentences with phrase «free lunch program changes»

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With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

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The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 introduced big changes to school nutrition standards (which govern school lunch and breakfast programs that receive federal government funding).

Students using the free and reduced - price lunch program % % Percent change Applicants Fall Spring Fall 2008 to Fall School district 2008 2009 Spring 2009 2009 Barrington Community 220 1,236 1,440 16.5 % 1,565 (Mundelein) Diamond Lake 76 509 514 1.0 % 550 Elmhurst Community 205 581 638 9.8 % 665 Elgin School U-46 17,721 19,693 11.1 % 21,016 Glenview 34 687 719 4.5 % 812 Lemont Township High School 210 57 58 1.8 % 67 Mundelein High School 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applications.

It is for all these reasons and more that President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 on December 13, 2010, a law that will not only change the nutritional guidelines of the 65 - year - old National School Lunch Program, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, perProgram, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, perprogram's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, per child.

In these comparisons, we take into account changes in the characteristics of the student body including the percentage of students who are Hispanic, the percent African American, and the percent eligible for the federal free lunch program, as well as changes in the school's student - teacher ratio.