Sentences with phrase «reduced lunch students»

Twenty - five percent of the Sunshine State's fourth - graders read Below Basic on the 2013 NAEP, an 15 percent decline from 11 years ago; 34 percent of its free - and reduced lunch students read Below Basic in 2011 versus 51 percent 11 year ago.

Just 29 percent of Florida's students read Below Basic on the 2011 NAEP, an 11 percent decline from nine years ago; 38 percent of its free - and reduced lunch students read Below Basic in 2011 versus 51 percent nine year ago.

I remember realizing I was one of the handful of free / reduced lunch students in AP Calculus in my high school, which is why I now constantly look at achievement gaps of under - represented subgroups.

Many of these elementary schools are not doing an adequate job in serving some of the high needs students they enroll (e.g., minority students, ELL students, free / reduced lunch students).

As a teacher in a School - Wide Title 1 building with 53 % free and reduced lunch students, I began to wonder how we can encourage our students to participate in a summer reading program.

It is a Title I School and the only five - star high school in Nevada that serves a free and reduced lunch student population of over 60 percent.

And there is substantial research to support it — I suggest you review 90-90-90 schools... these are schools that have 90 % minority populations, 90 % free and reduced lunch student populations, and 90 % of students reaching proficiency on standardized tests!

Not exact matches

The school in his neighborhood has a poverty rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think small class sizes are important.

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.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

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 new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

For the 44,000 students who pay the reduced or full price for breakfast or lunch at school, parents will have to pay 20 cents to 50 cents more starting Jan. 31.

The Yankton School District participates in the National School Lunch Program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which permits the school system to offer free and reduced priced meals to students who qualify.

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.

We still have the vending machines and are going to be installing a vending machine that serves «full meals» and can be accessed biometrically (palm scan) by all students including the ones that are participating in the free / reduced lunch program.

Last school year, meal participation was dropping in Napa Valley schools, even though around half of the student population qualifies for free and reduced lunches.

I'm guessing, from watching the show, that a large number of these students at West Adams are on free / reduced lunch program.

About 100,000 Chicago public high school students, 80 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced - price lunches, can choose nachos as an entree every day.

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.

Removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias may reduce calorie and sugar consumption, but it may also lead students to take less milk overall, drink less (waste more) of the white milk they do take, and no longer purchase school lunch.

Although eliminating chocolate milk can reduce the amount of sugar and calories available in a student's lunch, it may also have unintended negative consequences to consider.

It seems very ironic due to the continued media portrayal of economically disadvantaged students who qualify for free or reduced school breakfasts / lunches.

The state is ranked 48th out of 51 in FRAC's most recent School Breakfast Scorecard, up one spot from the previous year, feeding 43 free / reduced price (FRP) students in the School Breakfast Program for every 100 FRP students in the School Lunch Program.

Nationwide, fewer than half of students who take advantage of free - and reduced - price lunches also participate in the School Breakfast Program and that is also true in Utah.

For those unfamiliar with this mysterious sounding figure: She's a teacher in an elementary school in Illinois where most of the students qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch.

In FRAC's most recent School Breakfast Scorecard Oklahoma is 18th in the country, reaching 58.7 free / reduced - priced students at breakfast for every 100 served at lunch.

Overall, the researchers found students who received free or reduced - price lunches were more obese than students who did not take part in the USDA program, but the gap in obesity prevalence was much smaller in states with strict lunch standards.

Currently, North Carolina is reaching 57.4 free / reduced priced students at breakfast for every 100 served at lunch.

CPS inspector general James Sullivan found more than a dozen cases of lunch fraud at one West Side school to improperly enroll students in free or reduced lunch programs.

Previous studies questioned whether the USDA's National School Lunch Program, which provides free or reduced - priced meals to low - income students, helped children maintain a healthy weight.

Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.

The new findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, bode well for the standards introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in January 2012 that - among other moves - set maximums for calories offered during lunch and mandate that only skim or reduced - fat milk are offered to students.

The school I taught at was almost 100 % free / reduced lunch so most students had the school lunch.

The Parsippany Hills, NJ high school mentioned in the Times report, at which school food is being boycotted, has about 1,100 kids, 5 % of whom — or 60 students — qualify for free and reduced lunch.

In our city, where three - fourths of public school students qualify for free and reduced - priced lunches, we have a special responsibility to make sure that each and every child receives the nutritious, delicious meals that will propel them to academic success.

She found, for example, that the Kansas high school which produced the widely - viewed «We Are Hungry» video has only 83 students, 29 of whom qualify for free and reduced lunch.

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).

One such program is the USDA - funded National School Lunch Program, which currently provides 22 million students with reduced - priced or free school lunches.

During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.

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.

As the vast majority of students who eat school lunch are qualified for free / reduced, it really doesn't cost any more to also make that meal available for purchase by students whose families don't qualify for govt subsidy.

Of course, I think there's also a larger issue at play here — which is that society shouldn't stigmatize those who can't afford breakfast or lunch at school and students certainly shouldn't make fun of those purchasing free or reduced lunches.

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.

Texas requires schools with more than 80 percent of students eligible for free and reduced - cost lunch to serve universal free breakfast, but not necessarily Breakfast in the Classroom, a program where students eat the hot breakfast or cereal in the classroom with their teacher and peers.

Principals say the new lunch system has reduced misbehavior and helped students focus on eating.

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.

Supporting what you have said about the discrepancy in median income, only 8 % of students in the Steamboat Springs district qualify for free or reduced price lunch http://tinyurl.com/79paakd whereas in Greene County, 93 % qualify.

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