Sentences with phrase «lunch reimbursement funds»

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[31] Once school districts have earned federal reimbursements through the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Programs by serving reimbursable meals, they may spend the funds on any nonprofit school food program they operate.

School lunches have to follow certain meal pattern requirements to receive federal reimbursement funds.

While most experts agree that the HHFKA's «6 cents per lunch» reimbursement increase was insufficient to pay for healthier school food, the Noem / Miller approach is not to ask Congress for a funding increase but instead to allow schools to go back to serving kids the less healthy food they're used to eating.

This reimbursement money may make a small percentage of an affluent school's lunch program or almost all of the funding for schools in high - poverty areas.

This investment will allow us to improve the quality of our School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, increase the number of kids participating, and ensure that schools have the resources they need to make program changes, including training for school food service workers, upgraded kitchen equipment, and additional funding for meal reimbursements for schools that are enhancing nutrition and quality.

The ability of schools to offer meals other than lunch has been limited by high food costs, shrinking school budgets, and reduced federal reimbursements and funding to maintain school kitchens.

One key difference, however, is that the Barefoot - Hise proposal would order traditional school systems to share myriad funds currently not accessible to charters, including gifts, sales tax dollars and federal grants and reimbursements, at least one pool of which is used to offset the costs of school lunch programs, even though many charters do not participate in such programs.