Sentences with phrase «subsidized lunches»

Similarly, the effects were substantially larger among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch (regardless of race) relative to students who were not eligible.

Thirty - eight of the 47 teachers — or 81 percent — teach at schools where more than half of the students qualify for federally subsidized lunches, an indicator of poverty.

Schools that got an F had 61 percent of their students receiving subsidized lunches.

The school lunch rules apply to federally subsidized lunches served at reduced or no cost to low - income children.

Less than 10 percent of the 127 schools had a majority of students who didn't qualify for subsidized lunch.

About 46 percent are eligible for federally subsidized lunches, an indicator of poverty.

- 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.

-LSB-...] rather than be seen in the «uncool» subsidized lunch line.

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.

Thousands of charter schools don't provide subsidized lunches, putting them out of reach for families in poverty.

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 company offers employees subsidized lunches every Monday through Thursday, including sandwiches, salads, soups, dessert and a daily hot lunch item, all for about $ 7.

We also adjust for differences among students in a large set of individual characteristics — most importantly whether particular students had been directly exposed to domestic violence — but also race, gender, subsidized lunch status, and median zip code income.

At Gateway High, a well - regarded charter, 36 percent of students qualify for subsidized lunch because of low income.

Only a quarter of African - Americans, 7 percent of special education students and 23 percent of students who qualify for subsidized lunches met the benchmark in English.

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.

While I'm not terribly well informed on the subject, my understanding is that a charter school is a public school which has greater parent involvement in its management, and may focus on some area of education or some part of the community — but that remains a public school, with zero tuition (and the usual subsidized lunch, etcetera), open enrollment, all the usual rules about educational standards and against religious indoctrination.

children in more than 100,000 schools receive subsidized lunches, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Congress in November.

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.

Lottery participants are also less likely to be on subsidized lunch, and less likely to be minority.

• In central Phoenix, seventh - graders at Friendly House Academia del Pueblo, a K - 8 charter school where nearly all students qualify for federally subsidized lunches, showed remarkable gains in math in 2009.

In addition, thousands of charters do not provide subsidized lunches, putting them even further out of reach for the poorest families and children.

We find that the accountability provisions of NCLB generated large and statistically significant increases in the math achievement of 4th graders and that these gains were concentrated among African American and Hispanic students and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.

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

The selections are provided in addition to the government - subsidized lunches students can buy for about $ 1.50, depending on the school district.

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.

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

The resulting stigma can sometimes discourage free / reduced lunch children — desperate to appear «cool» in front of their peers — from eating the subsidized lunch altogether and instead going hungry.

Federally subsidized lunches must have a certain number of vegetables to be served.

And forgive me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that those who will be required to pay $ 2.72 per lunch would be people who can afford it — not those who financially qualify for a subsidized lunch?

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 2007 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study published by the USDA found that the mean 24 - hour calcium intake among middle - school students was 1,137 milligrams — or well within the acceptable range — for those who participated in the meals program, but 906 milligrams — less than the amount recommended — for children who ate outside the subsidized lunch line.

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.

Luckily for me, work provides 100 % subsidized lunch and dinner Monday — Friday (tons of options... even healthy ones!)

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

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.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

This information includes the race, ethnicity, and gender of both students and teachers; students» eligibility for a subsidized lunch; and students» performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a criterion - reference test administered each spring to students in grades 3 through 8.

Although African American and Hispanic children are more likely than whites to be eligible for a subsidized lunch in most communities, poverty crosses racial and ethnic lines, and desegregation by income produces a very different result than would a policy of racial desegregation.

With 68 percent minority enrollment and 41 percent eligibility for subsidized lunch, the school boasts a 95 percent graduation rate, which is 12 points higher than the national average for all students.

Ninety percent of the students at the school are Latino, 73 percent qualify for subsidized lunch, and 65 percent arrived lacking credits they would need to graduate on time.

Some 80 percent of its students qualified for subsidized lunches, and 31 percent were designated as English language learners.

Likewise, the typical student eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (a proxy for economic disadvantage) attends a school where almost two - thirds of students are also eligible for a subsidized lunch.

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.

The effects for students eligible for subsidized lunch are large and statistically significant.

These effects are concentrated at lower achievement levels and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.

Our data contain only basic information on student background characteristics, such as gender, race or ethnicity, and eligibility for subsidized lunch.