Sentences with phrase «lunch debt of»

In a survey by the association, districts reported median lunch debt of a few thousand dollars — but some were far higher, as much as $ 4.7 million.

Yet, now, over $ 150,000 has been donated nationwide by hundreds of people in order to wipe out the lunch debt of strangers.

SUMMIT, N.J. — A New Jersey high school student has raised thousands of dollars to pay off the lunch debts of students at other schools after she says she was disturbed by the so - called «lunch shaming» she saw at her previous school, according to the Jersey Journal.

Student enrichment: The Wellington Rotary Club donates $ 20,000 to cover the lunch debts of 10,000 students in the Palm Beach County School District.

Not exact matches

This would make it a low - cost competitive economy — as long as it taxes the free lunch of the land's site - value rent that has been freed from debt, as well as natural resource and monopoly rents as a basis for its post-Clean Slate fiscal policy.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

In St. Paul, unlike other school districts, the debt students who can't afford to pay for their lunch accrues is the responsibility of the district, not the students.

In early April, I had a news story in the New York Times about the passage of a groundbreaking law in New Mexico that bans «lunch shaming» - practices in the cafeteria that single out kids with meal debt, such as being given a cold sandwich instead... [Continue reading]

In the last two weeks, both this blog and the national media have featured a rash of stories about children having their lunches taken away by cafeteria employees due to unpaid lunch balances, and I also told you about a generous Houston school tutor / mentor who recently paid $ 465 of his own money to clear the debt of over 60 students.

As I reported in two stories in the New York Times this spring, lunch shaming is the practice of singling out children in the cafeteria over school meal debt by offering them alternate cold meals such as a cheese sandwich, marking them with a wrist band or hand stamp, or, in rare cases, requiring them to do chores in exchange for a meal.

For those unfamiliar with the term, «lunch shaming» refers to practices in the cafeteria that single out children with school meal debt, such as making the child wear a special wrist band, stamping the child's arm or hand, throwing the child's meal away in front of peers, or even making a child do chores, like wiping down tables, in exchange for a meal.

And this year, because of all the interest in «lunch shaming,» I wanted to mention a particular charity that helps out kids with school meal debt — School Lunch Flunch shaming,» I wanted to mention a particular charity that helps out kids with school meal debt — School Lunch FLunch Fairy.

Huge data sets were shared with IDEO staff for their project, but even members of the SF Board of Education have no access to files showing how many students at each school have not yet returned a meal application, or how many ate school lunch in October, or how much cafeteria debt each school is accumulating.

This results in the realization that as soon as external conditions turn unfavorable — i.e. when the free lunch of automatic growth and undiscovered deception is over — the likelyhood of almost any level of debt to be repaid is low.

State lawmakers are pushing to end the practice of «lunch shaming» ahead of a July 1 due date for unpaid debts.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Ford discusses her personal experience with school lunch debt and how her one tweet inspired a movement.

Prohibiting lunch shaming in PA law ensures that school employees will end this extraordinarily cruel practice of humiliating students because they have unpaid lunch debts.

So, day after day, you take a bus instead of a cab, you brown - bag your lunch, and you whittle away at the debt monster.

You might be surprised that small changes in your daily habits (like packing your lunch) can save loads of money for debt repayment.

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.