Sentences with phrase «lunch prices»

Often, paid lunch prices to increase to cover the difference.
Parents in economically depressed urban or rural areas might not be able to afford the higher lunch prices charged in wealthy suburban neighborhoods.
The board also increased the school breakfast and lunch prices by 10 cents for students with low income.
Lunch prices consist of a main course and dessert excluding drinks.
What happens to the students whose parents can't afford higher lunch prices?
The board also raised school lunch prices from $ 1.55 to $ 1.75 in grades 1 through 6 and from $ 1.60 to $ 1.80 for grades 7 and 8 to cover the cost of the program.
With just the whole grain change OR the paid lunch price increase, you may have seen a modesty change in participation.
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing — especially when it results in a stealthy government formula for raising lunch prices at the nation's schools that will cause hundreds of thousands of children — perhaps millions — to abandon the program.
«With the school year approaching, and school lunch prices rising, I was wondering what ideas everyone would have for lunchbox meals?
The Chicago Board of Education will increase lunch prices for the second time this year, lay off 150 more teachers and cut $ 14 million in transportation costs to help make up an $ 80 million budget deficit, officials said Tuesday.
«I always thought 85 cents was pretty cheap,» McCoskey said, especially when she compares lunch prices from her sons» schools.
But, now, with higher food prices and the English government slashing money for education, school lunch prices in England will escalate beyond the reach of a lot of English children.
It then calculated that the Senate's proposed lunch price mandate would generate $ 2.6 billion more income over 10 years — and cause nearly 500,000 paying students to stop buying lunch.
The price of a meal from home is FAR more expensive than paying the FULL paid lunch price at schools.
Township High School District 214 officials will increase student lunch prices by 15 cents this fall.
«I think it's fair to say in the sites where more kids are paying full lunch price, there is a probably a greater risk that they may take issue with the changes.»
In Northbrook, lunch prices bumped up by a quarter last year.
The School Nutrition Association is asking the USDA to test increasing lunch prices on a pilot basis before imposing the congressional mandate nationwide.
Elementary and intermediate lunch prices will increase by five cents and by ten cents at the secondary level.
Before making the change, district officials surveyed surrounding districts and assured board members the increase brings the district's lunch price into line with those of its...
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.
I received the following question from frugal friend Desi... «With the school year approaching, and school lunch prices rising, I was wondering what ideas everyone would have for lunchbox meals?
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?
The proposed budget increases Express Child Care fees by 5 percent and increases lunch prices by 10 cents.
Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.
Citing escalating costs for everything from food to fringe benefits, board members voted Thursday night to raise student lunch prices to $ 2 from $ 1.85, effective when students return to school this fall.
A report from the North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction shows that paid lunch prices in Haywood County in 2011 - 12 were $ 2 in elementary and $ 2.25 in middle and high school.
I'm so fed up with school lunch prices, portion sizes that I started sending him healthy food to school and now I'm having to send him only foods that aren't warm.
The Paid Lunch Equity requirements in HHFKA has mandated paid lunch prices be increased every year.
Saved lots of money because our school lunch prices were increasing and food was decreasing.
If these 20 districts brought paid lunch prices up to $ 2.43 — which, when combined with the federal reimbursement, would generate as much revenue per meal as the federal reimbursement for a free meal — they would increase their revenues by more than $ 55 million this year alone.
Talk turns to healthier food as school board raises breakfast, lunch prices (July 27, 2011): Another story focusing on the balancing act required to make school menus healthier while dealing with rising food and meal costs.
When the lunch price rose 15 cents to $ 1.75 in Munster, Ind., in 2008, for instance, nine percent of the kids dropped out.
Due to a federal mandate lunch prices will go up slightly for the 2017 - 2018 school year.
That way, poorer schools — which will never be able to opt out of the NSLP (or receive the outside community funding that places like Chef Ann's Boulder, CO district can raise)-- will have more money to work with when purchasing school meals, whereas richer districts can rely on community support to purchase better food — either overtly by passing around the hat as Chef Ann does, or implicitly through a higher lunch price that the population can afford.
Valley View school lunch prices had to be raised this year for the first time in five years due in part to dwindling support from the government program, Nichols says.
In the last two or three years, a cutback in the commodity program has forced many northern Illinois school districts to raise lunch prices, says Cinnamon.
-LSB-...] richer districts can rely on community support to purchase better food — either overtly by passing around the hat as Chef Ann does, or implicitly through a higher lunch price that the population can -LSB-...]
We also give schools the option of using this as a fundraiser by giving them back a portion of the proceeds while keeping our lunch prices affordable for hard working parents.
Des Plaines — Increases in music, activity fees and lunch prices are among the ways Elementary School District 63 plans to reduce the budget deficit next year without cutting programs.
Increases in music fees, lunch prices and activity fees are among the ways District 63 plans to keep from cutting programs while reducing $ 1.25 million in overspending.
DES PLAINES — Proposed hikes in music fees, lunch prices and activity fees are among the proposals to reduce the budget deficit in District 63.
Even though the law contemplates a gradual increase in lunch prices, here in Houston my district decided to raise its paid meal price far more dramatically this year, from $ 1.85 to $ 2.25.
After a split vote earlier this year, Arlington Heights School District 25 board members have approved a 20 - cent increase in school lunch prices.
Des Plaines — Music fees, lunch prices and activity fees are expected to be increased in Elementary School District 63 next year to reduce a budget deficit while avoiding cutting programs, district officials said Wednesday night.

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