Sentences with phrase «free or reduced price lunch programs»

Eighty - two percent of the district's students were eligible for free or reduced price lunch programs.

Public high schools in the United States with more than 40 percent of students participating in the federal free or reduced price lunch program are eligible to apply.

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.

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

Overall, the researchers found students who received free or reduced - price lunches were more obese than students who did not take part in the USDA program, but the gap in obesity prevalence was much smaller in states with strict lunch standards.

Previous studies questioned whether the USDA's National School Lunch Program, which provides free or reduced - priced meals to low - income students, helped children maintain a healthy weight.

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 National School Lunch Program spends more than $ 11 billion annually to feed the 30 million children who qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

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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.

kids who ate a free or reduced - price school lunch during the school year also participated in summer meal programs

1 in 7 kids who ate a free or reduced - price school lunch during the school year also participated in summer meal programs

The $ 4.5 - billion bill makes another 115,000 children eligible for free or reduced - price lunches, and provides 29 million more meals a year in after - school programs.

«The critically important free or reduced - price school breakfast and lunch programs, and summer food service program, are sometimes the only food some children are getting,» Charles says.

The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students and have a very low percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

But one or two speakers offered more novel arguments, such as increased stigma for children on free and reduced price lunch (when paying students leave the program) and attempting to draw a connection between California's drought and wasted fruits and vegetables.

Eligible high schools are those in which 50 percent or more of the students are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch program.

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.

We have a majority - minority student population, a large group of English - language learners, and almost 60 percent participation in the free or reduced - price lunch program.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

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.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

K12 students are modestly less likely to participate in the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (40 vs. 47 percent), roughly as likely to be classified as having a learning disability (9 vs. 12 percent), and much less likely to be English language learners (less than 1 vs. 14 percent).

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

Some programs, such as Connect to Compete and Internet Essentials, have already started on this work, offering low cost computers and Internet access to families of students that receive free or reduced price lunch.

For each school, we know the nontargeted, or noncategorical, allocations made for each student who attends the school as well as how much the school received for five targeted groups of students: students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, students eligible for bilingual education programs, students with disabilities, gifted students, and students in vocational education programs.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from low - income families (defined as those making less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced - price lunch).

In particular, we know each student's gender, ethnicity, whether they received free or reduced - price lunch through the federal lunch program, whether they were English language learners or received special education services, and their record of suspensions and absences from school.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

In this district, families that are not eligible for the federal lunch program are about twice as likely to make a request as those that are eligible: 30 percent of families who are not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch make a request compared with only 13 percent of eligible families.

(check the facts, Winter 2010), David Bass presents evidence of substantial error in students» eligibility for free or reduced - price school meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), citing a recent Mathematica study that found most errors result from misreporting of household income.

Fifty - three percent of students were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program.

Nationwide, more than 85 percent of KIPP students are from families eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program; 95 percent are African American or Latino.

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.

More - advantaged schools — those with fewer students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch and those with higher initial student achievement — benefited the most from the program.

The charter school students are about as likely to be eligible for special education and for the free or reduced - price lunch program as are students in the regular Chicago public schools.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

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.

Scholarships must be awarded to students who qualify for the free or reduced - price lunch program and are either entering kindergarten or first grade, or attended a public school the previous school year.

Eligible students must have a household income at 200 percent of the required level for the free or reduced - price lunch program.

If a public school has a schoolwide Title I program, which is permitted if 40 percent of its students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, then every student at the school — regardless of poverty level — is said to be a recipient of Title I services.

To complete her analysis, Cascio compared the academic outcomes of preschoolers who qualified for federal free - or reduced - price lunch programs, a standard measure of poverty, in states that offered universal preschool to similar preschoolers in states that offered only targeted preschool.

1 in 7 kids who ate a free or reduced - price school lunch during the school year also participated in summer meal programs

The Syracuse City School District represents 34 schools and 4 alternative education programs, serving 21,000 + students Pre-K-12 of whom 77 % qualify for free or reduced price lunch, 18 % are served by the Office of Special Education and 78 % are students of color.

Spend portion of expenditures on scholarships for students who qualify for the free or reduced - price lunch program ($ 45,510 for family of four in 2017 — 18) in an amount equal or greater to the percentage of eligible low - income students in the state

kids who ate a free or reduced - price school lunch during the school year also participated in summer meal programs