Sentences with phrase «free or reduced lunch at»

If your child receives free or reduced lunch at school, you automatically qualify for financial aid in the form of a full or a half - discounted scholarship.

New York's charter school law requires that SED and SUNY set targets for enrolling and retaining students with disabilities, English Language Learners, and students who are eligible for free or reduced lunch at rates that are «comparable» to those of the local school district or city school district.

Approximately 95 percent of students are Latino or African - American and 85 percent receive free or reduced lunch at OUHS.

Not exact matches

Initiatives include the Backpack Food Program where the foundation partners with local food banks and schools to provide knapsacks filled with nutritious, easy - to - prepare, nonperishable food for students who are at risk for hunger when free or - reduced price school lunches are unavailable.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

Roughly 183,500 free or reduced - price lunches were served at Niles North and Niles West high schools last year, district documents show.

CPS inspector general James Sullivan found more than a dozen cases of lunch fraud at one West Side school to improperly enroll students in free or reduced lunch programs.

Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.

To qualify for the program, a family of four must earn $ 28,665 or less for a free lunch; $ 40,793 or less to get lunch at a sharply reduced rate.

The report alleged 11 school employees and two other district employees who did not work at the school falsified applications to enroll their children for free or reduced - price lunches.

In the last four years, 55 CPS employees have now been accused of defrauding the federal school lunch program by enrolling ineligible children for free or reduced - price lunches, a pattern of abuse that highlights problems at every level of the program, Sullivan said.

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.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

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.

Somehow reading this article and looking over and over at the graphics of the neediest States using the free or reduced lunch program slightly eased my own shame and / or guilt; because I still hardly believe this is our reality.

Nearly 750 pupils signed up for free or reduced - price meals, the district reported, and now the district serves an average of only two alternate lunches a day at each of the system's 87 schools.

This is about children (mostly from low - income families) who receive school lunch at a reduced cost (or for free).

«Even when the studies did look at free and reduced lunch or socioeconomic status of the kids... they still in many cases did not find a correlation between AP and college success,» Pope said in an interview.

More than 30 million kids a year participate in the National School Lunch Program, getting free or reduced - price meals at school.

Participation is limited to schools in which at least 50 percent of the student population qualifies for free or reduced - price lunches through the National School Lunch Program.

The news that New York City now qualifies for universal free lunch through the Federal Community Eligibility Provision is music to the ears for many families that do not qualify for reduced or free lunch yet still have difficulty providing their child with a nutritious lunch at school,» said Council Member Vincent J. Gentile.

The point is that with 80 % of those kids on free or reduced lunch, they wont be getting good food at home either.

That's roughly one - fourth the number of children who qualify at schools for free or reduced price lunches — widely regarded as the only nutritious meal many needy kids receive during the school year.

The National School Lunch Program provides children from low - income families access to wholesome, nutritious meals — including lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced Lunch Program provides children from low - income families access to wholesome, nutritious meals — including lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced rate.

As a pediatrician, it is very worrisome to me that the children most likely to be eligible to receive free or reduced - price school lunch are exactly those who are at greatest risk for obesity and Type II diabetes: Latinos and African - Americans.

Families qualify for Internet Essentials if their children are eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches at CPS.

«The Center for American Progress reports that nearly 20 million children get free or reduced - price lunch at school.

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

Also, nearly all kids at Sojourner qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, versus 62 percent at the charter.

In Wake County, N.C., school and political leaders integrated the school system by putting a 40 percent limit on the percent of students who qualify for free or reduced priced lunch at each school.

Forty to 60 percent percent of the students at the schools qualified for free or reduced lunch, a marker for low socioeconomic status.

They measured educational outcomes using standardized tests and looked at demographic data, including attendance and suspension; race and ethnicity; free and reduced price lunch status; and participation in gifted education, special education, or programs for English learners.

At Waiʻanae High School, one of the program sites, nearly 95 percent of students are people of color — 60 percent of those are Native Hawaiian — and roughly 70 percent of all students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

Generally, students living at 130 percent of the poverty level or below are eligible for free lunches; those at 185 percent or below can get a reduced price lunch.

Apart from their learning environment, these eight 3rd graders are just like their peers at Lee Elementary, where 77 percent receive free or reduced - priced lunch, an indicator of poverty, and many report not having computer access at home.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

It is the primary ELA curriculum resource for grades 6 — 8 at Lake Pontchartrain, a Title I school where 100 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

The students, almost all African American, more than 80 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, came with skill levels all over the map; a majority read at a 5th - grade level or below.

About half the students are from various minority groups, and the number qualifying for free or reduced - cost lunch ranges from 9 percent at some schools to 74 percent at others.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

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.

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

St. Anthony, with nearly 1,400 students at the time, was 99 percent Latino, and nearly all of its students qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

Roughly 85 % of students at traditional Boston schools are poor enough to qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch.

Fewer than 21 percent of Nevada's fourth - graders and eighth - graders who qualified for free or reduced price lunch were at or above grade level.

At least 40 % of the students a scholarship organization awards scholarships to must have qualified for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program in the final year they attended public school.

Most kindergartners at Federal Heights Elementary School are minority students on free or reduced lunch.

Many low - income students rely on school for both breakfast and lunch, provided free or at a reduced price.