Sentences with phrase «on free or reduced price lunch»

I run an integrated high school, 16 percent of our kids are on free or reduced price lunch, and every one of them tomorrow who are 12th graders will walk into an international baccalaureate English class.

High schools that were graded A had an average of 9 percent of their students on free or reduced price lunch.

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.

Two days ago, New York Times national education correspondent Sam Dillon had a front page story on the sharp increase in the number of formerly middle class households now taking advantage of free or reduced price school lunches for their children, a stark indicator of the nation's current economic woes.

The USA Today piece has a great map showing that in great swaths of the country, upwards of 77 percent of public - school kids rely on reduced - price or free lunches.

But given that the National School Lunch Program already IS the ultimate nanny state program — a daily, free or reduced price hand - out of food, administered by the federal government — why is merely improving the food served so controversial on the right?

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.

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.

In our direct education work, FoodCorps currently concentrates on schools with high rates of students from low - income households, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school lunch.

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.

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

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).

On a daily basis, the school serves 800 lunches to its K — 5 children, 93 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

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.

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.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

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.

Started in 1995 in Little Rock, Ark., it provides students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunches with backpacks of food they can take home on weekends.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

Bryant's score on the 1,000 - point API has risen to 820 from 727 four years ago, even though 81 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch and 23 percent are English - language learners.

[7] Much of what they find corroborates existing empirical work, with the same caveats in interpretation: black students are more likely to be suspended, even conditional on eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch.

On average across all schools, 83 percent of students received free or reduced - price lunch.

While children on free or reduced - price lunch can often blend into a lunchroom where all students eat, the same can not be said for kids who arrive early for breakfast.

Where Prior Lake enrolls a little over 1,000 students, more than 90 percent of them white and only 1 in 20 on free or reduced - price lunch, Berkeley houses 3,000 students, one - fourth of whom are low - income and two - thirds of whom are nonwhite.

Specifically, we calculate growth for schools based on math scores while taking into account students» prior performance in both math and communication arts; characteristics that include race, gender, free or reduced - price lunch eligibility (FRL), English - language - learner status, special education status, mobility status, and grade level; and school - wide averages of these student characteristics.

Besides eliminating the problem of children fumbling through their pockets for change or losing their money on the playground, the system also protects the privacy of youngsters receiving free - and reduced - price lunches.

The district data also contain other information on students, such as race or ethnicity, gender, and eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch (a standard measure of poverty).

On average, elementary schools enroll 540 students; 86 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 87 percent are black.

Many low - income students rely on school for both breakfast and lunch, provided free or at a reduced price.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

The options allowed under the USED guidance include using counts of Identified Students (either alone, or multiplied by 1.6 to approximate the number of children who would be approved for free and reduced - price lunches); counts of students from low - income families based on state or local income surveys; and Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) assistance, Census (where available), or composite data authorized under the ESEA statute.

The public schools in which ELL test - takers are concentrated have, on average, a substantially greater proportion of students qualifying for free or reduced - price school lunches.

We used poverty (the number of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches) and type of school (elementary and secondary) as control variables for all of our analyses because several studies examining community involvement specifically found them to be significant influences on parental involvement in schools.

The association, which is an advocate for charter schools, focused on schools where at least 70 % of the children qualify for free or reduced price lunches.

We start talking about college on day one,» said Huberman, whose school serves 98 percent latino students, with 90 percent qualifying for free or reduced price lunch.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

Spend portion of expenditures on scholarships for students who qualify for the free or reduced - price lunch program ($ 45,510 for family of four in 2017 — 18) in an amount equal or greater to the percentage of eligible low - income students in the state

Over the last decade, the East Irondequoit Board of Education took on the challenge of providing access to college - level work in a diverse high school in which 51 % of all students receive free or reduced priced lunch.

Districts can apply on their own or as consortia within or between states, as long as they serve at least 2,500 students, 40 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

According to Kate Baker, the president of NEO, the reimbursement model has been «a significant burden» for many families.25 Since NEO prioritizes based on need, 98 percent of homeschooling scholarship families in the first year of the program had a total household income that would have qualified them for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (185 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 43,568 for a family of four in 2012 - 13), including 77 percent who would have qualified for a «free lunch» (130 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 30,615 for a family of four in 2012 - 13).26

The Education Equality Index relies on the performance of students in every classroom that receive free or reduced price lunch (FRL) through the National School Lunch Prolunch (FRL) through the National School Lunch ProLunch Program.

In the face of so many challenges and obstacles — designing new curricula aligned with Common Core, teaching a large population of English language learners and grappling with the reality that 75 percent of their students qualify for free or reduced price lunch — Burton's teachers wanted a protected, regular time slot to come together, look at data and figure out which of their teaching methods worked and which ones didn't so they could bring their students along on a path toward success.

Desert Trails, where 100 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches, ranks in the bottom third of California schools with similar demographics and has been stuck on the federal watch list for failing schools for six years.

At Liberty, a school for students at risk of dropping out where 87 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch — a measure of poverty — the faculty has attended multiple district - run trainings on the new standards and overhauled lesson plans.

Celerity Troika, located in Board District 5 and co-located on two campuses, Luther Burbank Middle School and Garvanza Elementary School, enrolled 609 students as of last October, with 68 percent qualifying for free or reduce - price lunch, 24 percent English language learners, 77 percent Latino and 4 percent African - American.

That number used to be calculated based on how many students received free textbooks, followed by students receiving free or reduced - price lunch.

As principal at Snacks Crossing, where 72 percent of students receive free - or reduced - price lunch, Carson has transformed the instructional culture to be centered on data based decisions and student outcomes.