If we are to fee kids better
lunches than lower the price of the health foods.
Not exact matches
The
lunch menu provides more options
than the breakfast menu, but the
prices are still incredibly
low.
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?
Compared to a district which charges just $ 1.50 for a paid
lunch, the district with the higher paid
price, and significant participation by those students, can generate far more revenue
than the district with the
lower paid
price.
We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from
low - income families (defined as those making less
than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced -
price lunch).
In order to make public schools more comparable to private ones, therefore, I exclude more
than 90 percent of the public school teacher sample and retain public school teachers only in
low - poverty (less
than 5 percent eligible for free or reduced -
price lunch) suburban schools.
Where Prior Lake enrolls a little over 1,000 students, more
than 90 percent of them white and only 1 in 20 on free or reduced -
price lunch, Berkeley houses 3,000 students, one - fourth of whom are
low - income and two - thirds of whom are nonwhite.
Low - income schools are defined as those in which more
than 50 % of students are eligible for free or reduced -
price lunches.
Students from high schools with a larger number of
low income students (more
than 50 % eligible for free or reduced
price lunch) had
lower college enrollment rates
than schools with mostly higher income students, regardless of the minority or geographic category that the school fell into.
(
Low - income means that more
than 50 percent of the students qualify for free and reduced
price lunch.
The rates of children who qualify for free / reduced
price lunch at most charters are far
lower than their host districts, charters serve virtually NO English Language Learners and a tiny fraction of students with disabilities (with the sending district footing the bill for those services).
And more
than half of the county's students qualify for free or reduced -
price lunch — but only 10 percent of
low - income students attend a top - rated school.
Data for subgroups, such as children qualifying for free and reduced
price lunch, children with disabilities, and children who are learning English, show
lower performance at Whitney
than for similar children statewide, and Whitney's overall test based performance and growth measured by tests is much
lower than state averages.
Although the school has a relatively high level of poverty compared with some of DSST's other campuses — 77 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced -
price lunch — poverty is much
lower than at the feeder elementary school, in which 94 percent of students are eligible (Colorado Department of Education, 2013).
Remember
than we are defining
Low - Income schools as schools with 80 % or higher free or reduced
price lunch.
Its students (75 % of whom receive free or reduced -
priced lunch; 40 % come from immigrant or refugee backgrounds) still score much
lower on achievement tests
than do students from more advantaged communities, but their performance has improved significantly, and they now enjoy far stronger opportunities to learn.
A higher percentage of schools where 76 percent or more of students were eligible for free or reduced -
price lunch required school uniforms
than did schools where
lower percentages of students were eligible for free or reduced -
price lunch.
The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced -
price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher
than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve
low - income
than high - income students.