Sentences with phrase «lunch fees»

She pays a reduced lunch fee that will rise to 40 cents.

CITY HALL - City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito proposed hiring 1,000 police officers, eliminating school lunch fees for all students and overhauling the property tax system in the City Council's budget response rolled out Wednesday afternoon.

Lawmakers want more summer jobs for teens — a $ 41 million budget boost that would increase jobs from 35,101 to 60,000 — and to scrap school lunch fees for all students, at a cost of $ 8.75 million.

Prince George's County raised lunch fees this school year to $ 2 in elementary school (from $ 1.75) and $ 2.25 in middle and high schools (from $ 1.85), but county schools lose money on those sales.

In a budget response issued Monday, the Council asked for more summer jobs for teens - a $ 41 million budget boost that would increase jobs from 35,101 to 60,000 - and to scrap school lunch fees for all students, at a cost of $ 8.75 million.

In Winona Area Public Schools (MN), the PTA established a «Feed the Kids Fund» to support students who aren't able to pay their lunch fees.

In New York City, for instance, schools since 2004 have absorbed at least $ 42 million in unpaid lunch fees, and now principals are being told they must collect the money or have it docked from their budgets.

This morning, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and a gaggle of other members unveiled the council's preliminary budget recommendations, which include hiring an additional 1,000 cops, eliminating school lunch fees and creating a panel to look at ways to overhaul the city's arcane property tax code.

«From increasing our police force to bolstering job creation to eliminating school lunch fees and reducing the homeless population, our proposals will strengthen the city's infrastructure, innovate government operations and build a stronger, safer city that delivers results for all New Yorkers,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

However this latest set - to is resolved, Washington joins the swelling ranks of school districts forced to lay off teachers, cancel textbook orders, trim summer - school plans, raise school - lunch fees or take other measures to close budget gaps caused by falling state tax revenues.

Preventative measures that cause students not to graduate including missing books, unpaid for lunch fees, past due library books, missing school uniform, etc., should be reformed and removed.

On these days when lunch is available, the $ 4 lunch fee will be waived for travel grant recipients.