Sentences with phrase «school meal participation»

Here's an article worth reading about how closed - campus policies do much to improve school meal participation — and overall student nutrition — at the high school level.

Even in my own school district, administrators have complained about how school meal participation suffers when healthy cuisine is served.

Monthly school meal participation was calculated as the mean number of daily meals served divided by student enrollment.

«Vermont schools are making the regulations work and increasing school meal participation through a variety of strategies,» says Anore Horton, Nutrition Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont, «While there was some initial increase in plate waste as schools made adjustments to the new rules in the first year, they have since mostly leveled off.»

There are a variety of ways school nutrition professionals are promoting healthier choices and working to mirror restaurant trends to boost school meal participation.

FRAC's long - term data analysis finds that school meal participation among low - income children — the very children the NSLP was designed to serve — has actually increased significantly in recent years, while participation among higher income children has dropped, likely due to changes in meal pricing and the lure of competitive foods.

Just yesterday, as a matter of fact, I got into a Twitter debate with someone on this key question, with each of us offering conflicting data on school meal participation before and after the implementation of the new school food law.

Most kids don't do this; despite scare headlines making it sound like students have left school meal programs in droves, nationwide school meal participation has dropped less than 3 % since new meal regs took effect.

First, the House Republicans» proposal will raise the threshold on the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, causing school meal participation to fall dramatically and causing schools to have a harder time balancing their cafeteria budgets.

The Academy's principal has heard that schools in high - need areas that expand school meal participation often don't just feed more students, but see their bottom line improve too.

As school meal participation increases, school districts draw down the associated additional federal and state - funded reimbursements for meals served.

This data should be based on the percentage of children in the school attendance area in which the site is located that are certified eligible for F / RP school meals, not the actual school meal participation rates.

May 14, 2014 Over 400 Schools Eligible to Use Successful New Tool to Combat Child Hunger by Increasing School Meal Participation

Many of the programs implemented by Gilbert have increased school meal participation, including Grab & Go breakfast for grades nine through 12; a five - choice breakfast everyday for students in grades K - 12; as well as the Summer Feeding program and farm - to - school initiatives.

Schools that have implemented the CEP have experienced striking increases in school meal participation, and many reported improved attendance.