Sentences with phrase «more eligible children»

The Scorecard itemizes the extent to which many states left a significant amount of money on the table by not reaching more eligible children with school breakfast.

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Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

Children eligible for the Disability Tax Credit receive more generous treatment: the age limit is 18 years and an extra $ 500 credit can be claimed.

We are also lucky in that when you have a child (or more) here you are eligible for tax credits each week.

When eligible schools use the summer and afterschool meal programs to provide free meals to all children during these most vulnerable times of the day and year, it creates new opportunities to engage in farm to school activities, and improves school meal program finances even more.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

Also, in order to be eligible for the child care credit, you must have actually earned an... MORE income during the year.

There are many ways a program can be eligible but specifically regarding momstown: we are «a membership of a minimum eight consecutive weeks duration in an organization if more than 50 % of all the activities offered to children by the organization are eligible activities» — this is consistent with our annual program pass.

Schools and child care centers must have 80 % or more students eligible for free or reduced priced school meals

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.

The $ 4.5 - billion bill makes another 115,000 children eligible for free or reduced - price lunches, and provides 29 million more meals a year in after - school programs.

How this bill will help: The Access to Nutritious Meals for Young Children Act will strengthen the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by adding meal or snack options for children who need them, helping cover the cost of more meals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for assChildren Act will strengthen the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by adding meal or snack options for children who need them, helping cover the cost of more meals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for assistChild and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by adding meal or snack options for children who need them, helping cover the cost of more meals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for asschildren who need them, helping cover the cost of more meals for children who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for asschildren who are in care for longer hours, and making more child care providers eligible for assistchild care providers eligible for assistance.

This one is extraordinary: Schools with 40 % or more of children eligible for free or reduced - price meals will be able to serve free breakfasts and free lunches to every student in the school, regardless of family income.

The Childhood Bereavement Network estimates that 21 % more parents would become eligible for bereavement benefits if the rules were extended to include cohabiting couples with dependent children.

Children of military service members killed in the line of duty would be eligible for more student aid and other forms of financial assistance if a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries becomes law.

Under Cuomo's more expansive plan, an estimated 940,000 New York households with college - aged children would be eligible.

The Chancellor announced on Monday that those earning more than # 44,000 will no longer be eligible for child credit from 2013.

According to the governor, more than 200,000 families will be eligible for the additional child care tax credit, while 85 percent of New York families would qualify for tuition - free public college education.

At 10:45 a.m., Gibson will visit with students and staff to learn more about the not - for - profit center's education and social services programs for farm worker and other eligible families in the Hudson Valley, Agri - Business Child Development Center, 6 Adams St., Kingston.

More than 200,000 families earning between $ 60,000 and $ 150,000 will be eligible for an expanded child care tax credit.

It currently serves more than one million children below the poverty line, just under half of all eligible children, and it receives almost $ 8 billion in annual funding.

«In the area of reproduction, some people are more eligible to have children than others are.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

Labour MP Frank Field has garnered cross party backing from more than 100 MPs for a Bill to automatically register children for free school meals if they are eligible.

As I switch the metric from per - Title I eligible (i.e., from child poverty counts) as in the district - level calculations in Table 1 to per - FRPL - eligible student, the grant amounts shrink as more students participate in free and reduced - price lunch than are poor (and counted for district - level allocations).

In New York, where 220,000 children in more than 300 schools were eligible, just 1,507 moved.

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

It found that just 24 per cent of children eligible for free school meals attend higher education compared to 42 per cent of children from more privileged backgrounds.

Only slightly more than half of Early Head Start children attend Head Start when they become age - eligible, [208209] and we believe programs must do more to maximize enrollment of Early Head Start children into Head Start, consistent with eligibility requirements.

However, when one looks at the Census data for those two towns it is apparent that Salem has a higher percentage of students living in poverty and higher percentages of children eligible for free lunch and that Harrison has more students eligible for reduced lunch.

We believe an education tax credit that would inspire charitable giving to state non-profits who provide scholarships to eligible children is the best way to immediately expand opportunity for children in need of more and better educational options.

It found that just 24 % of children eligible for free school meals attend higher education compared to 42 % of children from more privileged backgrounds.

If Senate Bill 3 reaches the Governor's desk, tens of thousands of children would be eligible for more freedom and more choice when it comes to their K - 12 education.

If one or more of your children are eligible to participate in the National School Lunch Program, your household may qualify for Internet Essentials.

To determine whether your child is eligible for a services plan, please contact the program supervisor for more information.

Federal funding should be more than doubled so that all eligible children receive support.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

Pupil premium funding is intended to help provide more support for children from poorer families, with primary schools currently claiming # 953 per year for each eligible child.

Children eligible for free school meals are four times more likely to be permanently excluded than their peers, and three times more likely to be excluded for fixed periods.

The government claims the changes in eligibility will mean that 50,000 more pupils will become eligible for free school meals, while Labour and the Children's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes intChildren's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes intchildren who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes into force.

And in the Legislature, bills are moving in the Senate and Assembly, requiring schools with 70 percent or more students eligible for school breakfast to serve breakfast «after the bell» — the model that has proven to reach the most children.

Automatically registering eligible children for pupil premium funding, for example, would target resources for great teaching more accurately.

At least 165,000 children, or one of every six eligible students, sat out at least one of the two standardized tests this year, more than double and possibly triple the number who did so in 2014, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

The distressing reality is that Head Start has never been able to serve more than a fraction of eligible children.

New Hampshire statutes prohibit more than 10 % of the resident pupils in any grade in a (non-charter) public school district to be eligible to transfer to a charter school without the approval of the local school board in the town where the child resides.

Eligibility requirements were tightened somewhat from the original version of the bill: Instead of having eligible children come from households whose incomes were 300 % of the federal poverty level, now household incomes can be no more than 133 % of the free and reduced lunch qualification level (or 240 % federal poverty level) after year two of the program.

Additionally, requiring attendance when age eligible circumvents redshirting, the practice of holding a child back a year so he / she enters kindergarten about a year older than peers and, presumably, more advantaged in skills (for more information on redshirting, see statement # 10).

In Massachusetts, schools with 60 percent or more students eligible for free and reduced - price meals, nearly 300,000 children also qualify for free and reduced - price breakfast.

· More Students Get Meals: Gives 115,000 more students access to free and reduced meals programs · Meal Program Process Easier: Cuts the paperwork and administrative hassle that goes along with providing free and reduced meals to students in high poverty areas based on census data · Meals for Foster Kids: Foster children are now automatically eligible in school meal programs · Meals for After School Programs: Expands USDA support of meal programs in at - risk after school progMore Students Get Meals: Gives 115,000 more students access to free and reduced meals programs · Meal Program Process Easier: Cuts the paperwork and administrative hassle that goes along with providing free and reduced meals to students in high poverty areas based on census data · Meals for Foster Kids: Foster children are now automatically eligible in school meal programs · Meals for After School Programs: Expands USDA support of meal programs in at - risk after school progmore students access to free and reduced meals programs · Meal Program Process Easier: Cuts the paperwork and administrative hassle that goes along with providing free and reduced meals to students in high poverty areas based on census data · Meals for Foster Kids: Foster children are now automatically eligible in school meal programs · Meals for After School Programs: Expands USDA support of meal programs in at - risk after school programs

With 93 percent of eligible children participating, adding HUSKY A's high utilization rate to the programs and categories currently captured by direct certification provides capacity to more accurately measure low - income student percentages, while not decreasing the overall low - income student count in the state's highest - need districts.