These Title I schools are targeted because 40 - 80 percent of their student populations receive
free or reduced lunch assistance.
Not exact matches
The options allowed under the USED guidance include using counts of Identified Students (either alone,
or multiplied by 1.6 to approximate the number of children who would be approved for
free and
reduced - price
lunches); counts of students from low - income families based on state
or local income surveys; and Medicaid, Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) assistance, Census (where available), or composite data authorized under the ESE
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
assistance, Census (where available), or composite data authorized under the ESE
assistance, Census (where available),
or composite data authorized under the ESEA statute.
[21] If state
or local income surveys are used, they must be accurate and must have an income threshold that is consistent with the census poverty definition
or the threshold used for
free or reduced - price
lunches, TANF
assistance,
or Medicaid.
Rather than giving schools more money based on the number of students who qualify for
free or reduced lunch, as in the past, complexity money will be awarded based on children whose families qualify for one of three federal low - income services — foster care, the Supplemental Nutritional
Assistance Program (food stamps)
or Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Last week Andre Bauer, the lieutenant governor of South Carolina and a candidate to become the state's next governor, compared providing government
assistance to those in need — including school kids eligible for
free or reduced price
lunches — to feeding stray animals.
Youth from military families, single parent home,
reduced /
free lunch, divorced parents, grandparents raising,
or any government
assistance in home are recruited.