Sentences with phrase «low 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.

When she is describing all of the barriers she faces, keep in mind that she is not trying to be a naysayer; the challenges she faces, including the often ridiculous regulations, the criminally low federal reimbursement for subsidized meals, the high cost of food, labor, utilities, and every other expense, are all very real.

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The new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

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.

They also would help ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals benefit low - income children.

It could do so by requiring school districts that charge lower prices to increase prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

If all states met FRAC's goal of reaching 70 low - income children at breakfast for every 100 at school lunch, an additional 3 million students would have access to a healthy breakfast, and schools would have access to an additional $ 836 million in federal reimbursements.

Often, they use part of the federal reimbursements for meals served to low - income children.

Such changes also would help low - income children obtain the full benefit of federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

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.

For children coming from low - income households, the federal reimbursement rate for lunch is around $ 3.33.

For example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

Federal reimbursement for similar procedures is substantially lower for hospitals in Ulster County than in Dutchess orWestchester, thus driving patients out of the county.

Another panelist pointed out the contradictory nature of asking for full cost recovery from the federal government «while we're willing to accept much lower reimbursement rates» from foundations.

But with reimbursement from the federal E-rate program, which helps provide connectivity to low - income districts, Lower Kuskokwim pays only about $ 2.5 million annually for the Internet services, he said.