Sentences with phrase «government meal reimbursement»
For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.
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Some of that is covered by the federal government, but district officials said they couldn't be specific because the costs are factored into the full meal reimbursement.
Since arriving, Rolls said, the company has significantly boosted lunch sales among the district's low - income population to 85 percent, bringing in dependable reimbursements of $ 2.77 per meal from the federal government.
There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.
The act covers the government's reimbursements to school districts for school meals; food served at many day care facilities for children and adults; and the Women, Infants and Children program, which provided food to more than 8 million people in 2007.
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.
Most meal programs in Vermont operate in the red, according to Horton, because government reimbursement rates are lower than the actual costs of food, labor and worker benefits.
It's in the school's best interest to make sure all children who qualify for free meals apply for them: The more children who are eligible for free meals, the higher the reimbursements the school receives from the federal government.
New York City has sought all forms of funding for meal reimbursement and is now eligible to receive the highest reimbursement from the federal government through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).
The federal government plays a vital role in the success of these programs: providing reimbursements for each meal served, ensuring equal access to free and reduced price meals for students in need and administering national nutrition standards.
Students can choose a meal which qualifies for full government reimbursement even without milk, so long as they take at least 3 of the 5 required meal components (protein, fruit, veg, grain, and milk.)
As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.
Schools got addicted to this extra revenue stream back in the 1980's and now many feel they can't give it up, but that's because the government reimbursement is not high enough to cover the real cost of the meals.
Sometimes these parents are serving a meal from a higher priced, healthy food vendor such as Revolution Foods, which charges the full amount of a government reimbursement to cover the cost of its food (meal costs from Revolution Foods start at about $ 3 and go upward, while in 2010 - 11 the reimbursement for a free lunch is $ 2.72.)
The federal government plays a vital role in the success of these programs: providing reimbursements for each meal served, ensuring equal access to free and reduced price meals for students in need and administering national nutrition standards.