Sentences with phrase «of subsidized lunch»
Micheline Piekarski, president of the Illinois School Food Service Association, said some schools might find it cheaper to drop out of subsidized lunch programs altogether and offer more expensive, less nutritious ala carte menus instead of full meals.
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Interesting fact: In response to the USDA's subsidized school lunch program during the Reagan administration, ketchup was counted as one of the two servings of fruit or vegetables for a reimbursable lunch.
For the first time, a majority of the country's public school students — 51 percent of them, to be precise — fell below the federal government's threshold for being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.
Last week, the Department of Agriculture proposed new guidelines for nutritional standards in the federally subsidized school lunch program.
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.
Brian Wansink, a food behavior specialist and author of «Mindless Eating,» said that might mean making the nachos less accessible — and certainly not a choice for a subsidized daily lunch.
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 lLunch 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 lunchlunch.
In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.
One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for food - safety reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.
She looked at her students, most of whom rely on government - subsidized free lunches at school.
The resulting stigma can sometimes discourage free / reduced lunch children — desperate to appear «cool» in front of their peers — from eating the subsidized lunch altogether and instead going hungry.
In fact, to the extent children are being fed junk food in the classroom, it's likely they will then consume less of the nutritionally balanced, taxpayer - subsidized meal offered in the lunch room.
At Louisa May Alcott School, the first of the three, students are now getting all - organic lunch choices partially subsidized by the food service industry.
Second, according to Poppendieck, by offering junk food in the same venue as the regular meal, the school district may feel pressured to keep the federally subsidized school lunch competitive by offering its own version of «junk food» items (hence the prevalence of pizza on school menus).
According to Janet Poppendieck, the sale of so - called «competitive foods» (because they compete with the subsidized school lunch) had taken place for decades but escalated considerably in response to Reagan - era cuts in domestic social spending.
Federally subsidized lunches must have a certain number of vegetables to be served.
The new standards, which go into effect July 1, mark the first time the U.S. Department of Agriculture program will directly dictate nutrition for any food sold in schools during the school day — not just the traditional lunches and breakfasts long subsidized through the federal school lunch program.
- The LFBT hysteria: Calls for the elimination of a cost - saving product from taxpayer subsidized lunch programs in the complete absence of any scientifically verifiable health or safety detriment.
Parents had to pay a fee each semester for the lunches, and it was subsidized fro low income families (about 1/3 of the school).
- Other demands made of the school lunch apparatus — ALL lunches served in public schools are subsidized and thus represent food welfare programs.
For many children, the federally - subsidized meals program, where milk is a required element at breakfast and at lunch, is an important source of calcium and vitamin D — at least when school is in session.
One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for sanitation reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally - subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.
While milk has been the keystone of America's school lunches since the federally subsidized program was established in 1946, the role of chocolate (and other flavored) milk has become a focus of late following a 2006 rule that required schools to establish comprehensive «wellness programs.»
Today, for instance, Big Boy came home with a bottle of Nestle «Pure Life» flavored bottled water — part of the taxpayer subsidized school lunch program.
While the federal lunch program subsidizes school meals at a rate of $ 2.68 each, schools must shoulder the other costs.
«I really try to be very understanding because I really want to get a nutritious lunch or breakfast in these kids,» said Osborn, adding that about 16 percent of her district's 3,500 students qualify for subsidized meals.
As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.
I've already written about the way such a system creates a real sense of «haves» and «have nots,» such that hungry kids on free / reduced lunch sometimes forgo a meal entirely rather than be seen in the «uncool» subsidized lunch line.
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department says 524 schools — out of about 100,000 — have dropped out of the federally subsidized national school lunch program since the government introduced new standards for healthier foods last year.
Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.
A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.
Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.
Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.
They also do not differ significantly in their initial per - pupil spending, average class size, percentage of students receiving subsidized school lunches, percentage of students with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and the mobility of their student populations.
Similarly, the effects were substantially larger among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch (regardless of race) relative to students who were not eligible.
Likewise, the typical student eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (a proxy for economic disadvantage) attends a school where almost two - thirds of students are also eligible for a subsidized lunch.
Ninety percent of the students at the school are Latino, 73 percent qualify for subsidized lunch, and 65 percent arrived lacking credits they would need to graduate on time.
We find that the accountability provisions of NCLB generated large and statistically significant increases in the math achievement of 4th graders and that these gains were concentrated among African American and Hispanic students and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.
Some 80 percent of its students qualified for subsidized lunches, and 31 percent were designated as English language learners.
There is a clear association, with more disadvantaged districts having lower opt - out rates, on average, but also a large amount of variation in the opt - out rate among districts with similar shares of students eligible for the subsidized lunch program.
The Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), TEA's statewide database, reports key demographic data, including race, ethnicity, and gender for students and school personnel, as well as student eligibility for subsidized lunch (a standard indicator of poverty).
The law also required annual statewide tests in grades 3 through 8, and again in high school, and states had to publish the performances of students on these tests for every school, breaking out the results by ethnicity, eligibility for a subsidized lunch, and a variety of other categories.
For a final check, we added controls for a full set of cohort - level variables, including race, gender, participation in the federal subsidized lunch program, and median zip code income.
Sixty - one percent of these children were black, while 85 percent were eligible for subsidized school lunches.
Although Brookline is Boston's closest suburb, surrounded by Boston on three sides, less than 10 percent of Runkle's students qualify for free or subsidized lunch.
We learned that 37 percent of their pupils qualify for the federal subsidized lunch program, almost the same as the 39 percent in the national public high school population.
The federal government now subsidizes school lunches to the tune of almost $ 9.5 billion every year.
More recently, this has been replaced by balancing schools according to socioeconomic status, limiting the number of students in each school eligible for subsidized lunches to under 40 percent (see «Fraud in the Lunchroom?»
The percentage of schools with more than 40 percent subsidized - lunch students has doubled in six years.
More than 800 miles south of Summit Sierra, in south San Jose, Summit Tahoma high school serves 300 students; about half are eligible for a subsidized lunch and two - thirds are Hispanic.