Sentences with phrase «getting free or reduced lunches»

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In order to get the cash subsidies, the schools have to provide lunches that meet the federal requirements AND provide free or reduced - price lunches to eligible students.

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.

Less than twenty percent of kids who are getting that free or reduced - price lunch during the school year are getting access to summer meals that are available to them.

Did you know that although more than 21 million children in the US get free or reduced - price school lunches, only 3 million get a free summer meal?

So there was no way to differentiate between someone getting a free, reduced, or regular priced lunch.

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

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

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

«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.

This area gets even trickier because not every student on «paid» status actually does pay — some school districts allow student with no free or reduced eligibility and no money to pay for their lunch, to «charge» the cost of the meal, and then try later to collect these unpaid charges from the family, often with mixed success.

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

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.

From kindergarten through high school students get a state - of - the - art science education in a district where more than one third of the students are Latino, many of them English language learners, and 70 % receive free or reduced - price lunch.

«As the authors of ConnCan's recent Spend Smart brief explain deeply embedded in a footnote... you really only need to use a single factor to get state aid targeted to the right schools and that factor is the share of children qualifying for FREE OR REDUCED PRICED LUNCH.

He goes to school with children who have parents that don't qualify for free or reduced lunch, however, this, in most cases, means that they are families who make enough to get by and NOT that they truly «less poor» as you call them.