Sentences with phrase «subsidized lunch program»

For a final check, we added controls for a full set of cohort - level variables, including race, gender, participation in the federal subsidized lunch program, and median zip code income.

- The LFBT hysteria: Calls for the elimination of a cost - saving product from taxpayer subsidized lunch programs in the complete absence of any scientifically verifiable health or safety detriment.

Micheline Piekarski, president of the Illinois School Food Service Association, said some schools might find it cheaper to drop out of subsidized lunch programs altogether and offer more expensive, less nutritious ala carte menus instead of full meals.

We learned that 37 percent of their pupils qualify for the federal subsidized lunch program, almost the same as the 39 percent in the national public high school population.

Eligibility for the subsidized lunch program is based on family income.

The USDA reports that children who participate in the federally - subsidized lunch program are four times as likely to drink milk at school than other children.

Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.

There is a clear association, with more disadvantaged districts having lower opt - out rates, on average, but also a large amount of variation in the opt - out rate among districts with similar shares of students eligible for the subsidized lunch program.