Sentences with phrase «of children on free school meals»

Their research found that, in 2002, 22 per cent of children on free school meals in London gained five or more A * - C GCSEs, including English and Maths.

The research also failed to find a «significant positive impact» on social mobility, and in fact found that the gap between the proportion of children on free school meals attaining five A * to C GCSEs including English and maths and all other children was actually wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

«We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.

And it says that academies take a higher proportion of children on free school meals than the national average.

However, research by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the charity Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows that primary schools with more than 40 per cent of children on free school meals will on average lose # 473 per pupil.

Not exact matches

One year on from the launch of free school meals for all infants in England, 95 % of parents of the children taking up the offer are recognising the benefits for their child.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service Child Nutrition Programs will host a FREE webinar on nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools outside of a reimbursable meal, known as the «Smart Snacks in Schools» staschools outside of a reimbursable meal, known as the «Smart Snacks in Schools» staSchools» standards.

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.

School districts long struggled with the issue of feeding children whose parents couldn't or wouldn't pay, and Diane Pratt - Heavener, spokesperson for the School Nutrition Association, recently asserted on Take Part that the improved meal standards mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act have only worsened the problem.

Even before I started The Lunch Tray, I'd read in Janet Poppendieck's Free for All: Fixing School Food in America references to data showing that, on average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed School Food in America references to data showing that, on average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed lunch.

This is certainly the intent of the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs, which offer free and reduced meals to children, based on their families» income, as well as full - price meals to any student.

Nationally, on an average day during the 2015 — 2016 school year, 12.1 million students eligible to receive free and reduced - price school meals participated in school breakfast, an increase of 3.7 percent, or nearly 433,000 children from the previous school year.

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Note: The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week (and possibly even today) on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the Senate bill that reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act and which will, if passed, increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

The report highlights two French schools, one where the cost of a meal is $ 5 or $ 6 per student, about twice what the U.S. federal government pays schools for children on free lunch, and another where the chef works with about half that amount.

The CEP was one of the less publicized gains of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA), allowing schools to provide universal meals to an entire school based on «direct certification» data, such as how many children live in households receiving food stamps (SNAP benefits), without also requiring annual paper applications submitted by parents.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.

Teaming up with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the Rock on Café program runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal programs.

An important point is also raised about the impact of the recession on the proportion of children receiving free school meals.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

The Chancellor also announced the continuation of the summer meals program throughout the city, which starts on June 27th and offers free meals to children 18 and under, in participating schools, parks, libraries, and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) sites across the city.

«Cutting the roll out of universal free school meals, abolishing one - to - one tuition, pulling the plug on funding for breakfast clubs and other extended services, aborting the school building programme and siphoning off money to allow the pushy and the privileged to set up schools will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged children hardest.

«Her Excellency Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day,» read a statement issued on her behalf by Adebisi Olumide, her media aide.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

The PDG provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on eligible for Free School Meals (e-FSM) and also for those children who are looked after (LAC).

This was at a press conference about providing more free meals to school children during the summer months, on the day after a Wall Street Journal - Marist poll was released which put him about five points ahead of Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Children who benefit from free school breakfasts and lunches often miss meals and go hungry once their school closes for the holidays, while the lack of free play schemes and sports activities can have an impact on those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.»

It is for all these reasons and more that President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 on December 13, 2010, a law that will not only change the nutritional guidelines of the 65 - year - old National School Lunch Program, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, per child.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

School staff and catering teams should work closely with parents of children on a gluten ‑ free diet to make sure their children are included at meal times and the food they are served is safe and free of cross contamination.

On accessing gluten ‑ free food at school, around half of parents told Coeliac UK that they find it difficult to find a suitable meal for their child.

Ms Powell, a former shadow education secretary, said: «Grammar schools in London have a shameful record of giving opportunities to children on free school meals.

Estimating the Effects of Free School Meal Provisions on Child Health: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision in Georgia Schools

The Pupil Development Grant (PDG) helps schools tackle the effects of poverty and disadvantage on attainment and is targeted at learners who are eligible for Free School Meals or are Looked After Children.

Based on the incidence of pupils receiving free school meals (FSM), the primary schools with most children on FSM will lose # 530 per pupil on average compared to # 351 for the primary schools with fewest pupils on FSM.

One year on from the launch of free school meals for all infants in England, 95 % of parents of the children taking up the offer are recognising the benefits for their child.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said that grammar schools have a «track record of closing the attainment gap to almost zero between children on free school meals and their better off classmates».

Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister, also criticised the failure of some local authorities — Portsmouth and Bracknell Forest — to send a single child on free school meals to top universities.

Secondary schools bands are based on GCSE exam performance, but also take into account other factors such as attendance and the number of children receiving free school meals.

But the balance of funding for the school year will be worked out based on an average of the number of children actually taking the free meal offer on two days during the academic year.

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The department's original plan, as reported in the last edition of Schools Week, was to extend the meals to every child of a family that claimed any part of universal credit, something charities argued would «poison» national data on disadvantaged pupils, for which free meals eligibility is used as an important yardstick.

Sue Berelowitz, deputy children's commissioner for England, said: «As Barnardo's point out, the top secondary schools on average only take 5 % of pupils entitled to free school meals, so a level playing field is needed.

The improved results for disadvantaged children (those who qualify for free school meals) this summer builds on an increase of four percentage points between 2013 and 2014

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During the debate, senior government ministers including Damian Hinds, the education secretary and Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, claimed that no child would lose out on free school meals as a result of the scheme.

Funding for meals served to children who are on school vacation in areas where 50 percent of the children qualify for free or reduced - priced school meals.

For the first time, it will include a specific measure of how well children on free school meals are doing.

The Pupil Deprivation Grant promises to pass the money directly to schools, based on the number of children eligible for free school meals.