Sentences with phrase «on free and reduced lunch»

Successful Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2006 by former educational leaders of schools with a large percentage of students on free and reduced lunch.

Todd County has 61 % of its children on free and reduced lunch (185 % of poverty) and Wolfe County has 78 % (Kids Count, 2011).

Thirty - four percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch, according to the U.S. Department of Education; this essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves.

Under the law, districts couldn't charge more than 25 percent of the retail cost for each textbook, with the state picking up the tab for students on free and reduced lunch.

«We are a rural community with 77 % of students on free and reduced lunch, so we need to provide as many opportunities for them to be successful as we can.

It's an urban school, mostly kids of color, mostly kids on free and reduced lunch.

The touchstone of a successful charter school has been to have 90 percent of the student population to be on free and reduced lunch, 90 percent of students of color but 90 percent of those students meeting the state standard.

For reference, students on Free and Reduced Lunch are at or under 185 % of the Federal Poverty Level.

Thirty - three percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch (which essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves).

Since then, despite a shift to a Democratic majority on the school board, the number of Wake County schools serving a majority of low - income children on the free and reduced lunch program has more than doubled, surging from 18 in 2008 to 48 this school year.

Her suburban school, which reported about 74 percent of its students on free and reduced lunch last year, earned a school performance grade of «F» in 2014 - 2015 and experienced soaring teacher turnover of more than 26 percent.

The system participates in a federally - backed program that provides free lunch to all students in 79 of its most low - income schools, meaning it no longer tracks system - wide data on free and reduced lunch, a spokesman said last week.

BAMS is a public school serving 276 7th and 8th grade students, 46 % on free and reduced lunch.

«Broome County is home to many children, over 16,000 that rely on free and reduced lunch,» said Jack Seman, the director of CHOW.

This is a huge leap forward and will be so beneficial to our student body, over 1/2 of whom are on free and reduced lunch.

While I feel bad that there is a divide, I do not believe that the answer to put the tator tots back on the free and reduced lunch program.

With districts that have lower percentages of kids on the free and reduced lunch program (like mine at 22 %), it's harder because you have less volume in purchasing and less funds for developing the program.

Not exact matches

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

Our reduced price and free lunch programs have become a scam on the taxpayer.

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.

The law, signed by President Obama on Monday, will add 6 cents to school lunch reimbursements and will expand eligibility for free and reduced - price lunches for kids — not as much as lunch - reform supporters hoped for, but still hailed as a victory by many in the movement.

This interactive map provides state - by - state data on participation in the free and reduced - price School Breakfast Program, as compared to participation in the free and reduced - price National School Lunch Program.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their choices.

Meanwhile, among kids on free and reduced price lunch — i.e., the ones who need the most nutritious meals possible — meal participation has actually increased.

I work in school foodservice and I see the free and reduced children everyday... believe me, they buy more ala carte items than the students on paid lunch!

If we're talking about universal lunch, or perhaps a school where there is a very high Free and Reduced volume and the child either eats or goes hungry, then yes, you can theoretically force healthy foods on them.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

The number of students eating free and reduced - price school lunches edged higher in many local districts last year, and appear on pace to climb even more this fall.

Within the 143 schools that operate on the year - round schedule, the ranks of students eligible for a free and reduced - price lunch grew from 89.8 percent a year ago to 92.6 percent this fall.

But one or two speakers offered more novel arguments, such as increased stigma for children on free and reduced price lunch (when paying students leave the program) and attempting to draw a connection between California's drought and wasted fruits and vegetables.

This area gets even trickier because not every student on «paid» status actually does pay — some school districts allow student with no free or reduced eligibility and no money to pay for their lunch, to «charge» the cost of the meal, and then try later to collect these unpaid charges from the family, often with mixed success.

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.

The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health leads to the expansion of child nutrition programs and the enactment of the free and reduced - price school lunch program for low - income students.

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

While it said there was «unclear» evidence that free school lunches raised attainment, it pointed to its own research on free school breakfasts in disadvantaged schools delivering similar academic benefits to free school lunches, but «significantly improved» behaviour and concentration, and reduced absences.

In Wake County, N.C., school and political leaders integrated the school system by putting a 40 percent limit on the percent of students who qualify for free or reduced priced lunch at each school.

«Many schools base participation fee waivers on eligibility for income - based programs like Medicaid or free and reduced lunch.

• Map performance on all of these measures against free and reduced - price lunch eligibility rates to determine which schools are truly excelling at educating low - income students and which schools are simply coasting along with an advantaged student body.

The contractor then extracts information on each student's demographic characteristics, enrollment, test scores, and certification for and participation in various programs such as free and reduced - price lunch, special education, and English - language services.

Some programs, such as Connect to Compete and Internet Essentials, have already started on this work, offering low cost computers and Internet access to families of students that receive free or reduced price lunch.

Nearly all Castlemont students are on free or reduced - price lunch and are students of color.

On average, California magnets are 62 percent free - or reduced - price lunch, but gifted magnets are less impoverished (58 percent) and health / medicine are more impoverished (69 percent).

The students involved in the project attend two Title 1 schools from Sparks, Nevada — Sparks Middle School and Sparks High School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, Nevada.

For example, the effect of a one - hour later start time on math scores is roughly 14 percent of the black - white test - score gap, 40 percent of the gap between those eligible and those not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 85 percent of the gain associated with an additional year of parents» education.

Roughly 40 percent of students were identified as economically disadvantaged based on their eligibility for free and reduced - price lunch.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

In a school where 80 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, the parents of the average child would have a 48 percent chance of selecting the teacher with a high - satisfaction and average achievement rating over the teacher with average ratings on both satisfaction and achievement.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.