Sentences with phrase «on subsidized meals»

(Texas) In the past year, Houston Independent School District won the prestigious Broad Prize, a $ 30 million Race to the Top grant, an assortment of blue ribbons and recognition on national best schools list - not bad for a district with 30 percent English learners and 80 percent on subsidized meals.

Not exact matches

From three prepared organic meals a day to unlimited snacks, artisan coffee and tea to free personal - fitness classes, health clinics, on - site oil changes, haircuts, spa truck, bike - repair truck, nap pods, free on - site laundry rooms, and subsidized wash and fold.

Shaikh had to scale down the comfort level for his employees on the road by choosing less expensive hotels and only subsidizing breakfast, instead of three daily meals, but he says employees understand the cut backs.

These meals are provided at a relatively low cost, with the government subsidizing based on income (just as the U.S. government does).

Moreover, not only does a la carte junk food pose a nutritional issue, it inadvertently creates a civil rights issue when only kids with money in their pockets can get the «cool food,» and needy kids are afraid to stand in line for the federally subsidized meal lest their pictures be snapped on cell phones and posted on Facebook to shame them for their lower economic status.

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 lunch.

She struggles to sell thousands of families on her belief that the federally - subsidized school meals program can support made - from - scratch food that's not only nutritious and sustainably sourced, but also attractive to kids trained to prefer convenience foods.

But I also don't want my district to offer these items and then rest on its laurels while the subsidized meal fails to provide the best food possible — for the very students who need it most.

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).

Make it a priority for your school district that every single family must return a free meal application, even if the family already knows that they won't qualify for government subsidized meals; those families can write «not interested» on the form, but their child MUST return the form to their teacher.

Everyone else lives pretty much in a perpetual state of misery, trying to figure out how they can possibly serve good food on the few scheckels the federal government provides in its subsidized meal programs.

Third, by eliminating the paid meal equity provision, the House Republicans» bill does exactly what it falsely accuses CEP of doing — it puts taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing meals for children from well - off families at the expense of children from lesser means.

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.

In an effort to stem high childhood obesity levels, the new guidelines set limits on calories and salt, and they phase in more whole grains in federally subsidized meals served in schools» main lunch line.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

On - site subsidized high - end cafe offering farm - to - table meals and snacks.