Sentences with phrase «price lunch eligible»

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Any public school containing these grades with a minimum enrollment of 125 students per school site, have a breakfast program, and serve at least 40 % of its lunches to free and reduced price meals shall be eligible for a state financial supplement.

The company claimed the district owed about $ 414,000 for requesting such «food enhancements» as a sushi bar and a lowered price for the meals made available to students eligible for free or reduced price lunches.

In order to get the cash subsidies, the schools have to provide lunches that meet the federal requirements AND provide free or reduced - price lunches to eligible students.

For many schools, the problem of unpaid school meal charges stems more from students who are not eligible for free or reduced price meals, but consistently fail to bring their lunch money (sometimes parents forget to pay, and sometimes — particularly in this economy — they struggle to pay).

More than 70 percent of District of Columbia Public School students are eligible for free and reduced price lunch, and many of these students acquire a majority of their total daily nutrition at school.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

But many of them apparently have no idea they're eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches.

However, did you know that fewer than half of students who are eligible for a free or reduced price lunch also participate in the SBP?

In contrast, Utah and New Hampshire each served breakfast to fewer than 41 free or reduced - price eligible students for every 100 who participated in school lunch.

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.

The $ 4.5 - billion bill makes another 115,000 children eligible for free or reduced - price lunches, and provides 29 million more meals a year in after - school programs.

This one is extraordinary: Schools with 40 % or more of children eligible for free or reduced - price meals will be able to serve free breakfasts and free lunches to every student in the school, regardless of family income.

HB315 eliminates the reduced - price category and requires the State to be responsible for the eligible student's share of the costs of breakfast and lunches.

Nationwide, the Agriculture Department, which administers the school meals program, estimates that 1 million students are eligible for a reduced - price lunch but don't take advantage of it.

Prince William officials said that although 90 to 95 percent of students eligible for free lunches eat every day, 85 percent or fewer of those who qualify for the reduced price eat a school lunch.

MPS offers free breakfast to all students, and free lunch to both those whose family incomes make them eligible and those who qualify only for reduced - price lunch.

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.

More than 80 % of the Academy's students are eligible for a free or reduced - price school lunch.

As a pediatrician, it is very worrisome to me that the children most likely to be eligible to receive free or reduced - price school lunch are exactly those who are at greatest risk for obesity and Type II diabetes: Latinos and African - Americans.

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.

Families qualify for Internet Essentials if their children are eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches at CPS.

The majority of NYC's public school students are poor; an astonishing 75 percent (780,000 children) were already eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Students who are homeless, in foster care, or qualify for free or low - priced school lunches will also be eligible for the waivers.

Eligible high schools are those in which 50 percent or more of the students are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch Eligible high schools are those in which 50 percent or more of the students are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch program.

[In the 2005 - 06 school year, 46 % of the district's nearly 13,000 students were eligible for free lunch and 12 % for reduced - price lunch.

Seven years ago, about a third of the school's students were eligible for free and reduced - priced lunches.

Public high schools in the United States with more than 40 percent of students participating in the federal free or reduced price lunch program are eligible to apply.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

Among the 13 elementary schools not participating in Title I, the median school had about half its students eligible for free - or reduced - price lunch; among the 116 Baltimore City Title I elementary schools, the median school had 94 percent of students eligible.

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

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.

As I switch the metric from per - Title I eligible (i.e., from child poverty counts) as in the district - level calculations in Table 1 to per - FRPL - eligible student, the grant amounts shrink as more students participate in free and reduced - price lunch than are poor (and counted for district - level allocations).

Families living at or below 130 percent of poverty level — or $ 28,665 for a family of four — are eligible for meals at no charge, while those who live between 130 and 185 percent of the poverty level receive reduced price meals, paying no more than 40 cents per lunch.

Generally, students living at 130 percent of the poverty level or below are eligible for free lunches; those at 185 percent or below can get a reduced price lunch.

For each school, we know the nontargeted, or noncategorical, allocations made for each student who attends the school as well as how much the school received for five targeted groups of students: students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, students eligible for bilingual education programs, students with disabilities, gifted students, and students in vocational education programs.

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.

They are present for both relatively affluent and relatively disadvantaged students (with somewhat higher estimated effects for students not eligible for free or reduced - price lunches).

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Before the storm, 49 percent of students were eligible for free and reduced - price lunch; that number shot to 79 percent the year after.

Eighty - nine percent of them are eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch; 100 percent are African American or Hispanic.

Schools that did not make AYP have a higher percentage of Hispanic students than schools that did (18 percent vs. 10 percent) and a higher percentage of students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch (48 percent vs. 39 percent).

Latino students, 84 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, comprise 21 percent of the student population.

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.

For example, consider the following figure that compares how the growth estimates from four different models are related to the school share of students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunches.

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.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

In this district, families that are not eligible for the federal lunch program are about twice as likely to make a request as those that are eligible: 30 percent of families who are not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch make a request compared with only 13 percent of eligible families.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.