Sentences with phrase «provide free and reduced lunches»

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Initiatives include the Backpack Food Program where the foundation partners with local food banks and schools to provide knapsacks filled with nutritious, easy - to - prepare, nonperishable food for students who are at risk for hunger when free or - reduced price school lunches are unavailable.

Reduced - cost and free lunch menus provide meals for 31 million children each school year.

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 the months during the study, the school district provided data for average daily participation rates, overall school enrollment, and percent of students receiving a free or reduced price lunch.

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

Todd Drafall, the district's business manager, said the schools are open to providing healthy food options but are limited by finances, which were further strained by a slight increase in the past few years of students qualifying for free and reduced - cost lunches.

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.

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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.

The National School Lunch Program provides children from low - income families access to wholesome, nutritious meals — including lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced Lunch Program provides children from low - income families access to wholesome, nutritious meals — including lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced lunch, breakfast, and even after - school snacks (where available), at a free or reduced rate.

The National School Lunch Program provides free and reduce - cost lunches and breakfasts to children in need.

The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students and have a very low percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

For each free and reduced - price lunch served, the Federal government provides $ 2.68 and $ 2.28 respectively.

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.

«NYC provides 60 percent of the State revenues, we have 53 percent of the State's Free and Reduced Price Lunch Students and 40 percent of students in the entire state.

Frankenberg evaluated data from the National Center for Education Statistics» Common Core of Data from 2006 to 2013, which provides annual school - level information about student's race and ethnicity, as well as free - and reduced - lunch data.

Altogether, five states now provide educational savings plans to students in varying degrees, with most currently restricting access either to those eligible for free and reduced lunch or those with specific disabilities or individualized education plans.

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

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.

The policy, devised as a way to help disadvantaged children, provides schools with a base rate of funding for each student, currently $ 2,896, and adds dollars based on need, such as the number of children receiving special education services, free and reduced - price lunches and lessons in English as a second language.

The program would provide $ 1,000 for each «gifted and talented» student who is already eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches.

NAEP results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics: gender, type of school, location, race / ethnicity, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch programs, students with disabilities, and students identified as English language learners.

In the document ABHS announced our policy for providing free and reduced price meals for children under the National school Lunch Program.

«I have made cuts in every single area apart from teaching staff and we're not prepared to reduce staffing hours to provide free school lunches.»

In support of this goal, CEL staff and consultants have provided job - embedded training, modeling instructional strategies and coaching teachers within the context of their schools and their classrooms It's happening, for example, in Vernon Parish at West Leesville Elementary, which houses grades two through four, with 70 % of students qualifying for 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.

The program would provide $ 1,000 for each «gifted and talented» student who is already eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches, which means the household's annual income is at or below $ 45,510 annually for a family of four.

Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country, status as students with disabilities, and status as students identified as English language learners.

The federal government provides reimbursement for free, reduced - price and paid lunches and breakfasts under the National School Lunch Program.

We have changed our policies to provide free and reduced - price lunches and transportation assistance.

Over 80 % of CPS students are eligible for free or reduced - cost lunch and a large percentage rely on meals provided at school.

Last week Andre Bauer, the lieutenant governor of South Carolina and a candidate to become the state's next governor, compared providing government assistance to those in need — including school kids eligible for free or reduced price lunches — to feeding stray animals.

Yes, charter public schools offer breakfast and lunch to students and provide meals at free and reduced rates for families who qualify.

Lake Station schools Superintendent Dan DeHaven said some challenges in working with children who live in poverty have to do with the additional support that must be provided to them; 78 percent of students in his district receive free and reduced - price lunch.

In Missouri, Jennings School District also has a 100 percent free and reduced lunch rate, and provides extra support for these students, including three meals a day, a homeless shelter and social services.

In the Harbor School application, Capital Preparatory Schools, Inc. (CPS — the Charter Magnet Organization that will provide «whole school management» services for the school) proposes a commitment to serving students with a history of low academic performance, students with a history of behavioral and social difficulties, students eligible for free / reduced lunch, students in need of special education and English language learners.

In addition, the DOE has initiated a program by which it will reimburse special education private schools to provide free or reduced - cost breakfasts and lunches to all students who would be eligible to receive these meals if they attended public school.

Local districts would continue to provide transportation and food, including free or reduced lunches, to lab school students, while also redirecting state and local per - pupil dollars to the school's university leadership.

Expanding the federal school breakfast and lunch program in order to provide free meals to all students — including in the summer months — would reduce childhood hunger and improve children's health and academic outcomes.