Sentences with phrase «free meal reimbursement»

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.

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.

The resulting number is the percentage of meals reimbursed at the «free» reimbursement rate, with the rest being reimbursed at the «paid» rate.

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.

They also would help ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals benefit low - income children.

[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.

For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.

Because, on average, the prices charged for paid meals and competitive foods do not cover the cost of providing those foods, as explained above, this system facilitates cross-subsidization of paid meals and competitive food with federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

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.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

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.

The federal reimbursement for free meals is one measure of how much is intended to be spent on producing a reimbursable meal.

Even if reimbursement rate increases were tied to meeting enhanced nutritional requirements, the full benefit of the additional funds would be realized only if reimbursements for free and reduced price meals were not siphoned off to keep prices low for paid meals or competitive foods.

Another way to assess whether the price charged for a paid meal is sufficient is to compare it (after adding the federal meal subsidy) to the federal reimbursement for free meals.

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.

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.

Such changes also would help low - income children obtain the full benefit of federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch programs by 115,000, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more healthful options.

Even students who pay «full» price for meals don't pay the real / actual cost, there is reimbursement to schools even for «full» price students (not as much as for free or reduced, of course), as well as support in the form of donated foods.

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.

You will want to enroll all eligible students in the free / reduced price meal program to feed all the hungry children in your school, improve their nutrition and maximize your reimbursement dollars.

I was the person in my childcare program who was responsible for the CACFP meal counts for reimbursement for free lunch.

The federal government plays a vital role in the success of these programs: providing reimbursements for each meal served, ensuring equal access to free and reduced price meals for students in need and administering national nutrition standards.

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.)

Sometimes these parents are serving a meal from a higher priced, healthy food vendor such as Revolution Foods, which charges the full amount of a government reimbursement to cover the cost of its food (meal costs from Revolution Foods start at about $ 3 and go upward, while in 2010 - 11 the reimbursement for a free lunch is $ 2.72.)

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.

At the current free lunch reimbursement rate of $ 2.72 per meal, many school providers say it is tough, if not impossible, to deliver healthy nutritious food while covering all other food services costs, including staffing and equipment, while staying within budget.

[3] Community eligibility schools are not required to find their Identified Students each year, but would benefit from doing so because their free reimbursement percentage could increase, it can help their state meet direct certification performance benchmarks, and it would allow them to use the data for purposes outside the meals programs.

For schools that participate in CEP individually, this percentage is identical to the percentage of meals for which they can claim reimbursement at the free rate from USDA.

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.

The federal government plays a vital role in the success of these programs: providing reimbursements for each meal served, ensuring equal access to free and reduced price meals for students in need and administering national nutrition standards.