Sentences with phrase «meal block grant»

SNA has issued a new call on Congress to oppose any school meal block grant proposal and provide greater support to school nutrition programs, which contribute to the health and academic success of students.

LAC attendees will call for opposition to school meal block grant proposals, support for the Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act (H.R. 3738) to expand USDA Foods to School Breakfast Program, and practical flexibility under school meal rules regarding sodium and whole grains.

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Here at the high school if we were to go to a block grant school meal program, it could really hinder our program.

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

The SNA is particularly alarmed by a proposal in the House last year to block grant school meals in three states.

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Program.

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SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

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Critics of the school lunch block grant idea warn that the measure does not provide enough funding to keep up with growing needs, does not guarantee a free lunch to needy students, and would prompt many schools to offer fewer complete meals or to drop their lunch programs altogether.

Block grants school nutrition programs in three states, a dangerous idea that will put further strain on state and local school districts» budgets and jeopardize children's access to quality, healthy school meals no matter where they live.

A compromise that would permit seven states to try running school - meals programs under block grants ended a weeks - long legislative stalemate late last month, allowing passage of a massive welfare - reform bill.

Senate Republican leaders indicated last week that they may not include provisions in their welfare - reform bill that would convert the federal school - meals and child - nutrition programs into block grants, as its House counterpart would do.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

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Invest in children's health and development by appropriately funding evidence - based programs, including Early Head Start and Head Start, Medicaid, CHIP, WIC, home visiting, SNAP, school meal programs and other programs that increase access to healthy food, and Child Care Development Block Grant — funded programs.