Sentences with phrase «subsidized lunch because»

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One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for food - safety reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

According to Janet Poppendieck, the sale of so - called «competitive foods» (because they compete with the subsidized school lunch) had taken place for decades but escalated considerably in response to Reagan - era cuts in domestic social spending.

One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for sanitation reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally - subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.

«I really try to be very understanding because I really want to get a nutritious lunch or breakfast in these kids,» said Osborn, adding that about 16 percent of her district's 3,500 students qualify for subsidized meals.

Because the parents pay tuition comparable to other private day schools, $ 24,250, the lunch is subsidized at levels to which public and more urban Catholic schools can not aspire.

All four schools were chosen for the grant because they have much higher percentages of students receiving subsidized lunches than the district average, and their test scores are also below Wake's average.