Sentences with phrase «lunch subsidies»

However, the city's student population — majority minority and mostly eligible for lunch subsidies — is typical of other urban centers where school reform is growing.

Students who qualify for federal lunch subsidies receive less effective instruction in school, on average.

Never — I am not asking you to subsidize anyone else's preferences (if I had my way, there would BE no school lunch subsidies, and I have repeatedly said that what Bettina should be doing is fighting to get the government out of the business of feeding her, your, or ANYONE»S kids.)

She described the makeup of the SCSD: there are 21,000 students who speak 80 languages, 3,200 students are English Language Learners, and 76 percent of students receives free or reduced lunch subsidies.

Eighty - four percent of Aldine's students qualify for lunch subsidies - an indication of poverty, a good number barely speak English and 97 percent are from minority groups.

Few students on the team, from what I could tell, faced quite the daunting array of disadvantages and obstacles that the average student at Fenger High School in Roseland did, but with 87 percent of IS 318's students eligible for federal lunch subsidies, the school had come by its Title I designation honestly.

Washington — The Bush Administration's proposal to reduce the school - lunch subsidy for middle - income students would force many schools to stop serving meals, child - nutrition advocates said last week.

Washington — The Republican - controlled Senate last week voted to freeze spending for most elementary - and secondary - education programs next year and to preserve school - lunch subsidies for middle - income students, but recommended that $ 130 million in impact - aid payments be eliminated.

About 80 percent of KIPP students in 15 states and the District have family incomes low enough to qualify for federal lunch subsidies, and they are all of the hormone - addled middle school age that makes even teachers at wealthy private schools tremble.

Gormley analyses the effects of Tulsa's pre-k program on three income groups: those children eligible for a free lunch, those children eligible for a reduced price lunch, and those children ineligible for any lunch subsidy.

The Tulsa results for full - day pre-K estimated a benefit - cost ratio for future earnings benefits relative to pre-K costs of 3.09 for children eligible for a free lunch subsidy, versus 2.82 for children whose family income was too high to quality for a lunch subsidy.

For children whose family's income was too high to quality for lunch subsidies, the estimated test score gain is lower but still sizable at 15 percentiles.

Test score gains due to pre-K at kindergarten entrance for children ineligible for a free or reduced price lunch were only 10 - 11 % less than test score gains for children whose family income was low enough to qualify for lunch subsidies.

As reported in Weiland and Yoshikawa's published paper, for most student outcomes at kindergarten entrance, the estimated effects of pre-K did not differ significantly with student eligibility for lunch subsidies.

«Parents of children in poverty are working, trying to put food on the table,» said Edward Kliszus, the superintendent at Port Chester - Rye Union Free School District in Westchester County, where 61 percent of students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies.

Among the student body, 69 % are performing at or above grade level and 94 % receive a lunch subsidy.