When I asked CPS for comment, I was told by a spokesperson that «CPS has a school lunch program that provides healthy, nutritious
lunches at no cost to students throughout the district.
CEP was created through the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, and allows qualifying high - poverty schools to offer breakfast and
lunch at no cost to all students without requiring families to complete an annual household application.
Not exact matches
More schools are taking part in the Community Eligibility Provision program, which is helping them serve school breakfast (and school
lunch)
at no
cost to students.
There is no major
cost difference between nutritious and not nutritious food
at schools: 55 % of
student being served very healthy food report their
lunch costing under $ 2, compared
to 55 % of
students being served food with no nutritional value
Although tuition will increase over $ 1000 per
student to cover the
lunch cost,
at least the caterer was selected because of its philosophy of providing healthy choices for kids.
The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts
to serve breakfast and
lunch at no
cost to all enrolled
students without the burden of collecting household applications.
In a budget response issued Monday, the Council asked for more summer jobs for teens - a $ 41 million budget boost that would increase jobs from 35,101
to 60,000 - and
to scrap school
lunch fees for all
students,
at a
cost of $ 8.75 million.
About half the
students are from various minority groups, and the number qualifying for free or reduced -
cost lunch ranges from 9 percent
at some schools
to 74 percent
at others.
The school has diversity of its own
to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of
students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced -
cost lunch, and fewer than half the
students are white.
HB 644 established the Charter School Transportation Grant Pilot Program
to fund up
to 65 percent of
student transportation
costs for charter schools where
at least half of
students qualify for federal free or reduced
lunch.
As a New Haven public school, Elm City Montessori School will provide breakfast and
lunch daily for all
students at no
cost to families.
CPS provides 250,000 nutritionally balanced
lunches and 160,000 breakfasts every day
at low or no
cost to students.
It's when we give up the
cost of our
lunch for one day
to help feed a community of
students at the Kanama Secondary School where Tara lives in Rwanda; many of whom get their only meal of the day
at school.