Sentences with phrase «subsidized lunches served»

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

In an effort to stem high childhood obesity levels, the new guidelines set limits on calories and salt, and they phase in more whole grains in federally subsidized meals served in schools» main lunch line.

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.

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.

More than 800 miles south of Summit Sierra, in south San Jose, Summit Tahoma high school serves 300 students; about half are eligible for a subsidized lunch and two - thirds are Hispanic.

Last year, 90,000 public and private schools served subsidized lunches to 24 million children, the department said.