More than half of all fourth - graders who are eligible for the free
lunch program fail to read at the basic achievement level needed for academic success.
Not exact matches
The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and
lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition
programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant
program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and
fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding
programs.
While the National School
Lunch Program serves over 5 billion meals yearly, there's a much larger problem that the USDA
failed to address in their announcement.
Instead, the
program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed
lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits
fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a
lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..
«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and
failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school
lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release
This is no small matter, as the U.S. poverty rate in 2003 was just 8.1 percent if those items are included, 23 percent less than the officially reported 10.5 percent poverty rate for that year (which
fails to take into account food stamps, Medicaid, school
lunch programs, earned income credits, and other cash transfers).
Kansas The newly formed tax credit - funded scholarship
program provides scholarships to children who qualify for reduced price
lunch and attend a
failing school.
Students at Cleveland, Mississippi's Bell Academy, a once
failing school that has turned around after installing a magnet math, science and health
program, line up for
lunch service.
For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar
program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free
lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price
lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «
failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.