Sentences with phrase «subsidized lunch programs»

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.

- 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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Other popular perks: mentoring programs (26 %); free or subsidized lunch (20 %); matching gift programs (16 %); and sabbaticals (14 %).

Interesting fact: In response to the USDA's subsidized school lunch program during the Reagan administration, ketchup was counted as one of the two servings of fruit or vegetables for a reimbursable lunch.

Last week, the Department of Agriculture proposed new guidelines for nutritional standards in the federally subsidized school lunch program.

The lunch program lost $ 60,000 last year, said Stacey Mallek, assistant superintendent for business, and was being subsidized only by the district's food service contracts with other districts.

As such a subsidized school lunch program offering «fun» food is like someone using their welfare check to buy luxury items.

The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA), the law that governs the National School Lunch Program and other federally subsidized child nutrition programs, is set to expire on September 30, 2015, at which point lawmakers must decide... Read more

Also, I work in a school with a healthy lunch program and teachers get it very heavily subsidized.

The district spends about $ 1.2 million each year on its food service program, which includes lunch and a federally subsidized breakfast program, and breaks even, Kenney said.

The program subsidizes lunch and breakfast for nearly 32 million needy kids in most public schools and many private ones, and those schools must follow guidelines on what they serve.

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.

At a June meeting between Houston ISD Food Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized program.

Many Vermont schools that have moved breakfast after the bell have realized financial profits in their school breakfast programs that have helped them subsidize lunch costs, purchase more local food, and launch other nutrition programs.

The new standards, which go into effect July 1, mark the first time the U.S. Department of Agriculture program will directly dictate nutrition for any food sold in schools during the school day — not just the traditional lunches and breakfasts long subsidized through the federal school lunch program.

- Other demands made of the school lunch apparatus — ALL lunches served in public schools are subsidized and thus represent food welfare programs.

The Federal Government subsidizes the National Free Lunch Program, and they changed the Free Lunch kids lunch menus to EXCLUDE «a la cart» items such as tater tots Lunch Program, and they changed the Free Lunch kids lunch menus to EXCLUDE «a la cart» items such as tater tots Lunch kids lunch menus to EXCLUDE «a la cart» items such as tater tots lunch menus to EXCLUDE «a la cart» items such as tater tots etc..

For many children, the federally - subsidized meals program, where milk is a required element at breakfast and at lunch, is an important source of calcium and vitamin D — at least when school is in session.

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.

While milk has been the keystone of America's school lunches since the federally subsidized program was established in 1946, the role of chocolate (and other flavored) milk has become a focus of late following a 2006 rule that required schools to establish comprehensive «wellness programs.»

Today, for instance, Big Boy came home with a bottle of Nestle «Pure Life» flavored bottled water — part of the taxpayer subsidized school lunch program.

While the federal lunch program subsidizes school meals at a rate of $ 2.68 each, schools must shoulder the other costs.

For those needing a refresher, «competitive food» is food that competes with the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs.

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department says 524 schools — out of about 100,000 — have dropped out of the federally subsidized national school lunch program since the government introduced new standards for healthier foods last year.

Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.

By the time the 79th Congress passed the National School Lunch Act in 1946 to formalize, subsidize, and make permanent a National School Lunch Program, 48 states — the entire country, at that point — were already on board, serving 6 million children in 42,000 schools.

A study of teachers in New York City, for instance, concludes that the difference between teachers from programs that graduate teachers of average effectiveness and those whose teachers are the most effective is roughly comparable to the (regression - adjusted) achievement difference between students who are and are not eligible for subsidized lunch.

Based on the percentile gains in test scores from Boston pre-K, the ratio of the present value of the future increase in adult earnings, to the cost of the program, are estimated to be $ 3.22 for children eligible for a subsidized lunch, versus $ 2.30 for middle - class children.

Unfortunately — as a 2013 study by the California Food Policy Advocates has found — only 17 % of students who received subsidized lunches during the school year also participated in a similar summer lunch program.

Many Vermont schools that have moved breakfast after the bell have realized financial profits in their school breakfast programs that have helped them subsidize lunch costs, purchase more local food, and launch other nutrition programs.

NSBA does not support additional regulations or mandates on schools outside of the federally subsidized school lunch and breakfast programs.