Not exact matches
Pavel tells Jamie he's created unnecessary ill will with LAUSD and makes the valid point that if Jamie unfairly portrays a district's food,
participation in the
lunch program could
drop precipitously, causing serious and lasting harm.
In its second year of offering a
lunch menu to elementary school students,
participation dropped last year at Park View and Westfield elementary schools.
Last school year, meal
participation was
dropping in Napa Valley schools, even though around half of the student population qualifies for free and reduced
lunches.
Nothing in any of the worksheets takes into account a possible sudden
drop in
participation in the
lunch program if students dislike the changes implemented, a consideration which seems especially timely right now when we're hearing so much negative feedback surrounding the newly improved federal school meal regulations.
And who knows why the
lunch participation really
dropped.
As this FRAC report indicates, http://tinyurl.com/lhg52av studies have shown that NSLP
participation drops 1 % for every 5 cent increase in the paid price of a school
lunch.
And while CPS»
lunch and breakfast
participation rates have
dropped since the introduction of healthier menus this year, rates are up at Holy Trinity by 14 percentage points since Boundas arrived.
Meanwhile, Houston ISD does a brisk business in items like pizza and corn dogs, «carnival» foods the district is terrified to discontinue lest student
participation drop and the entire school
lunch program sink into the red.
TLT Kid - and - Food hero Janet Poppendieck cites in «Free for All» that as a result of this legislation, «Nearly 2,700 schools
dropped out of the program, and as
lunch prices jumped in schools across the nation,
participation by full price students declined from 15.3 million in 1979 to 11.2 million in 1983.
Participation in the school
lunch program has
dropped by thousands of students.
Some affected cafeterias blame the new smaller portions and healthier fare for causing as much as a 70 percent
drop - off in school
lunch program
participation since the new standards took effect.