Sentences with phrase «many children receive free school meals»

The school has a high number of newly arrived families and EAL pupils, and a high number of children receiving free school meals.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

An important point is also raised about the impact of the recession on the proportion of children receiving free school meals.

This investment builds on the # 282m already secured for the Pupil Premium by the Welsh Lib Dems, which from next April will be worth # 1,150 for every child receiving free school meals.

Gove is understood to have settled the method of paying the premium: in the short term, it will use the existing system of allocating extra money to children receiving free school meals.

The new pricing structure means state - funded schools benefit from a 15 % discount and those with a higher than average number of children receiving free school meals will be eligible for 60 % off the standard rate.

In the UK, there is an average 22 per cent gap in attainment between children receiving Free School Meals and their peers.

Secondary schools bands are based on GCSE exam performance, but also take into account other factors such as attendance and the number of children receiving free school meals.

Mr Gibb said: «It is a real concern that almost a third of all Key Stage 1 children receiving free school meals are failing to achieve the standard in reading and writing.

He said it was «a real concern» that almost a third of children receiving free school meals failed to meet the standard expected in literacy.

The system also looks at how many children receive free school meals to recognise family backgrounds.

Not exact matches

More than 350 low - income children in the community receive free lunches at the park during the summer to ensure they have healthy meals while school is out of session.

[18] Schools are required to avoid any overt identification of children receiving free or reduced price meals (see 42 U.S.C. § 1758 (b)(10)-RRB-, but when school meals are eaten predominantly by low - income children, those who eat meals may be stigmatized.

About 70 percent of all school children in the District qualify for free or reduced - price meals and receive the majority of their daily nutrition at school.

In our city, where three - fourths of public school students qualify for free and reduced - priced lunches, we have a special responsibility to make sure that each and every child receives the nutritious, delicious meals that will propel them to academic success.

During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.

But a lesser - noticed story published that same day on the Times School Book blog reported that New York City is being forced to cut its Universal Meals Program, which had previously insured that all children at some predominantly low - income schools received free lunches, without demonstrating economic need — and therefore without risking social stigma by taking the schoolSchool Book blog reported that New York City is being forced to cut its Universal Meals Program, which had previously insured that all children at some predominantly low - income schools received free lunches, without demonstrating economic need — and therefore without risking social stigma by taking the schoolschool meal.

The Democrat - led House voted Thursday to send President Obama a bill that would enable more poor children to receive free meals at school, raise the nutritional quality of cafeteria fare and reduce the junk food and sugary beverages sold in school vending machines.

While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal.

It's in the school's best interest to make sure all children who qualify for free meals apply for them: The more children who are eligible for free meals, the higher the reimbursements the school receives from the federal government.

Nationally, on an average day during the 2015 — 2016 school year, 12.1 million students eligible to receive free and reduced - price school meals participated in school breakfast, an increase of 3.7 percent, or nearly 433,000 children from the previous school year.

That's roughly one - fourth the number of children who qualify at schools for free or reduced price lunches — widely regarded as the only nutritious meal many needy kids receive during the school year.

Only 10 % of children who receive free or reduced school lunches access summer meal programs.

FRAC measures how well the Summer Nutrition Programs are reaching children in need by comparing the number of low - income children receiving summer meals to those receiving free and reduced - price school meals during the normal school year.

Through these programs, children (ages 18 and under) can receive free meals at participating summer sites at schools, parks, other public agencies, and nonprofits.

According to the Feeding America website, while over 21 million children participated in free or reduced - price school meals in 2011, just over 2 million received meals during the summer months.

The CEP was one of the less publicized gains of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA), allowing schools to provide universal meals to an entire school based on «direct certification» data, such as how many children live in households receiving food stamps (SNAP benefits), without also requiring annual paper applications submitted by parents.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

All children at infant schools will receive a free, hot meal at lunchtime, Nick Clegg announced today.

· An extra # 2.5 bn to be spent annually on the 1 million children who receive free school meals.

The programme has targeted areas according to measures of relative disadvantage including the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), free school meals and the proportion of children under four in households receiving income related benefits.

All schools in Wales now receive # 450 per child, aged 5 - 15, on free school meals.

The report was commissioned by the UK Government and produced by a group chaired by former Labour Minister Alan Milburn said that is was «especially concerned» that a smaller proportion of Welsh children who receive free school meals achieve five good GCSEs (26 %) compared to children from similar backgrounds in England (38 %).

As a result of Nick Clegg's announcement today of free school meals for every child in infant schools in England, Wales is set to receive around # 30m under the Barnett Formula.

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This would ensure children are automatically enrolled to receive free school meals, rather than having to apply for this.

Jackie Brock, chief executive of Children in Scotland, told Third Force News: «For some families, particularly those who receive free school meals, the school holidays can be a struggle.

«Our proposals should not only protect those children already receiving free school meals and additional school funding but will see thousands more benefitting from this support in future.»

In the pilot studies carried out under the last Labour government, which saw all primary school children given free school meals in the London Borough of Newham and in Durham, those children who took part were found to be two months ahead of their peers academically, compared to those who had not received the meals.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

The government proposals will mean that just 700,000 of the 1,700,000 school children in poverty who could be helped, will receive free school meals.

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A new consultation will review eligibility for children currently receiving additional support from the government during their education, such as free school meals and additional school funding, in light of the national rollout of Universal Credit.

Once entitlement has been assessed children can continue to receive free school meals until the family stops receiving a qualifying benefit.

Children of families receiving income support, employment support allowance (income - related) or income - based jobseeker's allowance are entitled to receive free school meals.

Based on the incidence of pupils receiving free school meals (FSM), the primary schools with most children on FSM will lose # 530 per pupil on average compared to # 351 for the primary schools with fewest pupils on FSM.

In Reading, both the grammar schools give high priority to children who have received free school meals in the past six years and live within the catchment area

The report also calls on Congress to extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, increase funding for career and technical education programs, expand the Community Eligibility Provision so more students in high - poverty schools can receive free meals, improve schools» access to Medicaid funding for health and mental health services provided to students, and adjust the Title I funding formula so that it's «accurately and more meaningfully» allocated to rural school districts.

Richard Watts (pictured below), leader of Islington council, which introduced free school meals for all primary school pupils in 2010, has warned that taking a snapshot of take - up numbers so early in the school year risks presenting an inaccurate picture of how many children will receive meals over the course of the year.

There is a simple solution to ensuring that every child receives a hot, filling, nutritious meal every school day: provide taxpayer - funded free lunches for all of them.