Sentences with phrase «meal eligibility worked»
When combined with the other pupil characteristics, models with measures of free school meal eligibility worked best, in practical terms, for explaining variation in pupil achievement.
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Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.
It explains and provides resources related to how community eligibility works, how it helps participating schools and families, how to operate without school meal applications, and how stakeholders can prepare to implement the option when it becomes available in all states for the 2014 - 2015 school year.