Sentences with phrase «meal federal reimbursement rates»

Tables showing the per meal federal reimbursement rates for the Afterschool Meal Program and Summer Food Service Program, as well as projected annual program income based on the number of children served.

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NSBA says the new nutritional standards will just widen the gap between what schools pay to provide free meals and the federal reimbursement rates.

But if Congress increases reimbursement rates without reforming the use of federal funds in school food budgets, the end result could be significant costs to taxpayers coupled with little improvement in the quality of meals served.

If increases in reimbursement rates prove desirable, the changes discussed here would help ensure that the added federal funds are actually used to provide more nutritious school meals.

For the first time in over three decades it would increase the federal reimbursement rate, by approximately six cents a meal.

Participating districts reported higher breakfast and lunch participation and were significantly more likely to report that the federal reimbursement rate was sufficient to cover the cost of producing a reimbursable meal.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

With low federal reimbursement rates for school meals (42 cents for paid meals, $ 2.81 for reduced - price meals and $ 3.21 for free meals), the added cost of healthy food gets passed on to families that can least afford it.