The state also partners with local school districts to help
them get federal reimbursements for their investments in technology.
And it was seemingly bizarre that a legislator would push to prevent his state from
getting federal reimbursements — potentially hurting the state by a tune of more than $ 2 billion.
The donations started shortly before Gerrity left his job as a regional manager at CDM Smith, the company that previously handled Nassau's efforts to
get federal reimbursement for Sandy rebuilding.
Not exact matches
As explained below, two possible uses of school food revenue — subsidizing paid meals and providing competitive foods — raise concerns that low - income children may not be
getting the full benefit of the
federal reimbursements intended for those meals.
I
get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low
Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to
get the pitifully low
reimbursement; the lack of ongoing
Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.
-LSB-...] It all goes back to a question that's been debated hotly on this blog for a long time (see «Why I Rained on Someone's School Food Reform Parade» and the posts linked to it): can a school district ever «
get it right» using just the
federal reimbursement rate?
If this district is very affluent, then the Food Service department is not
getting very much money in
federal reimbursement.
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.
He is the architect and CEO of a school based Medicaid Consortium, which is responsible for
getting federal Medicaid
reimbursements back to Nebraska school districts.