Sentences with phrase «free or reduced priced lunch at»

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.

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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It could be that public school students who are at the lower end of the income threshold for free or reduced - price lunch are more inclined to seek the scholarship option.

For the vast majority of public schools, approval to receive free and / or reduced - price lunches (FRPL) has been the sole, or at least the primary, indicator of low family income under Title I.

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.

The district now reserves a share of seats at each school for low - income students, as measured by a student's free or reduced - price lunch eligibility.99

At the time, state data showed that, among Indiana schools with more than 90 percent of students receiving free or reduced price lunch, Christel House had higher test scores than every other charter school and all but a handful of traditional public schools.

In the first we looked only at the association of the Positive State Policy Index and teachers «ratings of the principal «s instructional leadership, controlling for two key school characteristics (building level, coded as elementary or secondary; and the percentage of students in poverty, or eligible for free and reduced - price lunch).

Rhodes Middle School is located in a low - income community; at the time of our study, 13 % of the population fell below the poverty line, and 60 % of the Rhodes students qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

The association, which is an advocate for charter schools, focused on schools where at least 70 % of the children qualify for free or reduced price lunches.

At Dean Tech, which has a predominantly Latino student population, more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

In awarding scholarships to students who attended public school or who received a scholarship the previous year, award at least 40 percent of scholarships to students who qualified for free and reduced - price lunch in the final year they were in public school

For the purpose of this report, low income schools are defined as schools where at least 50 percent of the students are eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch.

The percentage of students eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the National School Lunch Act enrolled at all schools currently operated by the operator exceeds 70 perlunch under the National School Lunch Act enrolled at all schools currently operated by the operator exceeds 70 perLunch Act enrolled at all schools currently operated by the operator exceeds 70 percent;

Low income schools are defined as schools where at least 50 percent of the entire student population (not just graduating seniors) is eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

Districts can apply on their own or as consortia within or between states, as long as they serve at least 2,500 students, 40 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

Under a law passed in 2010, districts with free or reduced - price lunches can offer the meals to every student at the school, regardless of household income.

Sixty - three percent of students at Quil Ceda and Tulalip are American Indian, and a high majority of students receive free or reduced - price lunch.

(At Dunn, 19 percent of students receive free or reduced - price school lunch.)

At both River View and Summer Heights, more than half the school population receives free or reduced - price lunch.