Sentences with phrase «lunch eligibility as»

Because poverty predicts risk for school adjustment problems, low achievement, crime, and other problem behaviors, the effects of the full intervention on children from poor families were investigated using logistic and linear regression methods as appropriate, with terms for intervention and free lunch eligibility as main effects and an interaction term for intervention by participation in the free lunch program.

Not exact matches

And I understand that some schools have something like a 90 % + eligibility for free lunch (leaving pretty much nobody as a paying customer).

The law, signed by President Obama on Monday, will add 6 cents to school lunch reimbursements and will expand eligibility for free and reduced - price lunches for kids — not as much as lunch - reform supporters hoped for, but still hailed as a victory by many in the movement.

In our direct education work, FoodCorps currently concentrates on schools with high rates of students from low - income households, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school lunch.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

Meanwhile, in Caroline, Frederick, or Talbot County Schools, the median Title I school had about the same free - or reduced - price lunch eligibility rate as the median non-Title I school in Baltimore City.

Regardless of whether Title I remains in its traditional form or is converted in some part to vouchers, districts will face major challenges allocating resources based on individual student economic status as community eligibility for free lunch eliminates the incentive for individual students to report their poverty status.

A similar but weaker relationship exists along class lines (as measured by free lunch eligibility).

We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from low - income families (defined as those making less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced - price lunch).

Roughly 40 percent of students were identified as economically disadvantaged based on their eligibility for free and reduced - price lunch.

We also conducted a more sophisticated analysis that measures the relationship between a family's demographic characteristics (such as eligibility for free - or reduced - price lunch, median household income of the student's residential neighborhood, race, and student prior achievement level), a school's poverty level, and the likelihood that the parent makes a request.

Our data contain only basic information on student background characteristics, such as gender, race or ethnicity, and eligibility for subsidized lunch.

The Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), TEA's statewide database, reports key demographic data, including race, ethnicity, and gender for students and school personnel, as well as student eligibility for subsidized lunch (a standard indicator of poverty).

In the year prior to entering a KIPP school, 80 percent of the KIPP students are from low - income families, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school breakfast and lunch (FRPL); 96 percent are either black or Hispanic; 7 percent are English language learners; and 7 percent receive special education services (see Figure 1a).

In my time as chancellor at D.C. Public Schools, we worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on community eligibility programs so that all students could have access to free breakfast and lunch programs.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

The district data also contain other information on students, such as race or ethnicity, gender, and eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch (a standard measure of poverty).

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 created a new option, known as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), for how schools can operate the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

Other districts, such as Palm Beach, appear to distribute $ 259 per student for schools with 50 percent to 60 percent eligibility, $ 324 for schools that are between 61 percent and 75 percent eligible, $ 389 for schools that are between 75 percent and 90 percent eligible, and $ 486 for schools with more than 90 percent of their students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch.

The analysis also took into account students» age, gender, eligibility for the free lunch program, and whether they had been assigned to a small class, as well as variables measuring the demographic composition of the student's class.

The district now reserves a share of seats at each school for low - income students, as measured by a student's free or reduced - price lunch eligibility.99

Free and Reduced Priced Lunch Differences: Free lunch and reduced lunch eligibility do not have the same effects on student achievement and should not be used as one category (Harwell & La Beau, 2Lunch Differences: Free lunch and reduced lunch eligibility do not have the same effects on student achievement and should not be used as one category (Harwell & La Beau, 2lunch and reduced lunch eligibility do not have the same effects on student achievement and should not be used as one category (Harwell & La Beau, 2lunch eligibility do not have the same effects on student achievement and should not be used as one category (Harwell & La Beau, 2011).

The authors relied on data about students» eligibility for free and reduced - price lunch as a measure of poverty.

NAEP results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics: gender, type of school, location, race / ethnicity, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch programs, students with disabilities, and students identified as English language learners.

The DOE also issued a regulation permitting schools to use to information about children's eligibility for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program as a means of determining students» socioeconomic status for school assignment purposes.

As reported in Weiland and Yoshikawa's published paper, for most student outcomes at kindergarten entrance, the estimated effects of pre-K did not differ significantly with student eligibility for lunch subsidies.

Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country, status as students with disabilities, and status as students identified as English language learners.

The program has a 10 percent window of families that must pay a monthly tuition fee, because they don't meet the eligibility requirements — which, as in Dallas ISD's program, stipulate eligible four year - olds must have limited English proficiency, qualify for free or reduced lunch, be homeless or in foster care, and / or have a parent active in the military, as Breitbart Texas reported.

In the early 1990s, the average Latino and black student attended a school where roughly a third of students were low income (as measured by free and reduced price lunch eligibility), but now attend schools where low income students account for nearly two - thirds of their classmates.

A recent analysis examined 2013 NAEP scores among states after adjusting for various demographic characteristics of each states» student population, such as eligibility for free and reduced price lunch, status as ELLs, and other factors.

We use panel data in Washington State to study the extent to which teacher assignments between fourth and eighth grade explain gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students — as defined by underrepresented minority status (URM) and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL)-- in their eighth grade math test scores and high school course taking.

The CEP is authorized by the final rule: National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010

We find schools that are hyper - segregated by race; and we find schools that do not reflect the cultural and economic profile of the communities in which they are situated (for as Ms Lecker reports charter schools underserve English language learners and they often underserve the most economically disadvantaged children, as measured by eligibility for free and reduced lunches).

However, in a report that Richard Kahlenberg and I coauthored for the Century Foundation, we profiled diverse charter schools in which the proportion of low - income students (as measured by eligibility for free and reduced - price lunch) ranged from 30 to 70 percent, within 20 percentage points of the 50 percent goal (Kahlenberg & Potter, 2012).

With many support programs unavailable to college students, such as the lunch programs they may have used as elementary and high school students, and many not meeting the work requirements for SNAP eligibility, food banks in schools are the most logical, if unfortunate, solution.

School lunch eligibility status (free, reduced price, and full price) also served as a proxy for socioeconomic status.

The trajectories were identical for nearly all subgroups of children as defined by their gender, race / ethnicity, and economic resources (as delineated by school lunch eligibility).