Sentences with phrase «meal reimbursements for»

This investment will allow us to improve the quality of our School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, increase the number of kids participating, and ensure that schools have the resources they need to make program changes, including training for school food service workers, upgraded kitchen equipment, and additional funding for meal reimbursements for schools that are enhancing nutrition and quality.

If districts selling deep fried snacks are caught doing so in a school food audit, they will have to pay back their federal meal reimbursements for each day the violations occurred.

The School Breakfast Program is one of several Child Nutrition Programs sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture and administered by the Ohio Department of Education, which provides meal reimbursements for students eligible for free or reduced - price meals.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

Not exact matches

Health perks - such as on - site gyms or meal plan reimbursements - are another oft - recommended strategy for boosting employee engagement.

Investing more money in federal school meal reimbursement, so schools can afford to buy healthier food and pay for the increased labor needed to prepare it;

The new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

Schools that participate in CEP are guaranteed to receive the same meal reimbursement rate for 4 years.

As for their salaries, the «operation of the program» is funded through (a) federal reimbursement, which is derived from taxpayer dollars and (b) cash payments from district parents who can afford to pay for all or a portion of their children's meals.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

They also would help ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals benefit low - income children.

Federal reimbursements are not provided for such foods, but under current USDA policy, the federal reimbursements provided for school meals may be used to subsidize the costs of providing competitive foods.

[24] Since the federal reimbursement for a free meal is $ 2.68 (see Table 1), the revenue generated by each paid meal in these districts falls 61 cents short in elementary schools and 27 cents short in high schools, on average.

For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterFor instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterfor the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.

While meal prices and USDA reimbursement rates provide more money, that also goes to pay for labor, equipment and overhead costs.

These changes are necessary to ensure that any increase in reimbursement rates is used to improve meals, not to keep down prices for paid meals or competitive foods.

Because, on average, the prices charged for paid meals and competitive foods do not cover the cost of providing those foods, as explained above, this system facilitates cross-subsidization of paid meals and competitive food with federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

In these schools, the combined average revenue for paid meals is $ 2.05 for elementary schools and $ 2.42 for high schools, and the federal reimbursement for a free meal for the 2009 - 2010 school year is $ 2.68.

School districts have broad discretion over the use of the revenues they receive, including federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

It could do so by requiring school districts that charge lower prices to increase prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

The federal reimbursement for free meals is one measure of how much is intended to be spent on producing a reimbursable meal.

The act covers the government's reimbursements to school districts for school meals; food served at many day care facilities for children and adults; and the Women, Infants and Children program, which provided food to more than 8 million people in 2007.

Even if reimbursement rate increases were tied to meeting enhanced nutritional requirements, the full benefit of the additional funds would be realized only if reimbursements for free and reduced price meals were not siphoned off to keep prices low for paid meals or competitive foods.

Another way to assess whether the price charged for a paid meal is sufficient is to compare it (after adding the federal meal subsidy) to the federal reimbursement for free meals.

Often, they use part of the federal reimbursements for meals served to low - income children.

Instead, increased reimbursements could be used for any number of purposes, including keeping down the price of meals for better - off students or subsidizing less nutritious foods.

There is no regulatory requirement that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals be spent only on those meals or that records differentiate between the costs and revenues of the various aspects of the school food program.

Such changes also would help low - income children obtain the full benefit of federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

As explained below, two possible uses of school food revenue — subsidizing paid meals and providing competitive foods — raise concerns that low - income children may not be getting the full benefit of the federal reimbursements intended for those meals.

Under «offer versus serve,» students need to select three of five meal components at lunch in order for their meal to be eligible for federal reimbursement.

-LSB-...] Nutrition Association, an organization of 55,000 professionals, has asked Congress (albeit half - heartedly) for a 35 cent increase in federal school meal reimbursement.

Plus, my school gets the economically disadvantaged additional $ 0.15 / meal in addition to my regular reimbursement AND my $ 0.06 / meal for meeting the HHFKA guidelines.

The USDA knew all along that the Paid Meal Equity provision of the HHFKA would likely drive participation downward, and while the intent is well - meaning (to make sure that reimbursements for low income kids» meals are not unintentionally subsidizing lower prices for slightly more affluent paying students), no one benefits when fewer kids eat the school lunch.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

The alternate meals served are not claimed for reimbursement in our school, so we have to keep the cost as low as possible.

another challenge is that it becomes harder for meals to meet reimbursement requirements, which also creates a drain on budgets.

The contest winner will receive full conference registration, three nights in a conference hotel, $ 300 for airfare or travel reimbursement, and $ 45 per day for meals and other expenses.

In New York, schools serve 1.7 million lunches and 500,000 breakfasts each day — which puts them on the front line of combatting hunger and childhood obesity — and yet the state meal reimbursement rate has remained at six cents for the last 40 years.

Indeed, in a forthcoming Spork Report post I'll share photos of some new, attractive dining concepts recently introduced by HISD / Aramark — some of which are only for cash payment (i.e., the meals are not eligible for federal reimbursement.)

We are really in a transformative moment here in school meals; this is the first serious upgrade in nutrition standards in over 15 years, and the first real increase in the reimbursement rate for a very long time.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch programs by 115,000, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more healthful options.

lRaise the federal reimbursement by 6 cents per lunch for school districts that comply with new meals standards to be issued by the Agriculture Department.

Even students who pay «full» price for meals don't pay the real / actual cost, there is reimbursement to schools even for «full» price students (not as much as for free or reduced, of course), as well as support in the form of donated foods.

For most Vermont schools, the per - meal reimbursement and commodities provided by the federal school breakfast and lunch programs is not sufficient to cover all of these school meal program costs.

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.

They are only required to take three to qualify as a «meal» for purposes of federal reimbursements.

In the question there is the statement that «breast milk is not an option for fluid milk» but in the answer there is the statement that «USDA recognizes the many benefits of breast - feeding and promotes it by allowing reimbursement for these meals until the child reaches two years of age.»

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

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 studenFor 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 studenfor school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying studenfor paying students?