The department's original plan, as reported in the last edition
of Schools Week, was to extend the meals to every child
of a family that claimed any part
of universal credit,
something charities argued would «poison» national data on disadvantaged pupils, for which free meals eligibility is used as an important
yardstick.
Whether it's college football rankings, New York Times Bestseller lists, Top Lawyerist Posts
of 2011 or the Fortune 500, we simply HAVE to know how
something stacks up relative to its competition according to some arbitrary
yardstick.