Sentences with phrase «subsidizes the meals of»

Republicans who pushed for the bill argued that the CEP is a waste of taxpayers» money as it subsidizes the meals of kids who can afford to pay for them.

They believe CEP unfairly subsidizes the meals of kids who could afford to pay full price, at enormous cost to taxpayers, and have advocated for a 60 - percent threshold to determine a school or district's eligibility.

Not exact matches

Shaikh had to scale down the comfort level for his employees on the road by choosing less expensive hotels and only subsidizing breakfast, instead of three daily meals, but he says employees understand the cut backs.

The authors observed: «A major finding of [the 1994 study] was that school food authorities... subsidize the cost of nonreimbursable meals with overall excess revenue generated from all reimbursable meals.

Federal reimbursements are not provided for such foods, but under current USDA policy, the federal reimbursements provided for school meals may be used to subsidize the costs of providing competitive foods.

Instead, increased reimbursements could be used for any number of purposes, including keeping down the price of meals for better - off students or subsidizing less nutritious foods.

As explained below, two possible uses of school food revenue — subsidizing paid meals and providing competitive foods — raise concerns that low - income children may not be getting the full benefit of the federal reimbursements intended for those meals.

WE are the adults and we have the responsibility to make sure children are eating healthy — and that includes ALL of our children, even those lower - income ones that are stuck getting gov» t subsidized school meals for their main source of nutrition.

The USDA knew all along that the Paid Meal Equity provision of the HHFKA would likely drive participation downward, and while the intent is well - meaning (to make sure that reimbursements for low income kids» meals are not unintentionally subsidizing lower prices for slightly more affluent paying students), no one benefits when fewer kids eat the school lunch.

No school is allowed to sell soda as part of the federally subsidized meal program, and fruits and vegetables are now required meal components.

Even before I started The Lunch Tray, I'd read in Janet Poppendieck's Free for All: Fixing School Food in America references to data showing that, on average, children who regularly eat the federally subsidized school meal consume a wider variety of nutrients than those who consistently eat a home - packed lunch.

In October, the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services division, which oversees the subsidized meal program, circulated a memo saying that while it encourages the use of salad bars in schools, school menu planners must tell students the minimum amounts they must take from salad bars, cashiers «must be trained to judge accurately the quantities of self - service items,» and point - of - sale registers «must be stationed after the salad bar.»

Thus, school districts wind up diverting to a la carte sales substantial portions of the federal cash reimbursements intended to subsidize healthy meals.

She struggles to sell thousands of families on her belief that the federally - subsidized school meals program can support made - from - scratch food that's not only nutritious and sustainably sourced, but also attractive to kids trained to prefer convenience foods.

In fact, to the extent children are being fed junk food in the classroom, it's likely they will then consume less of the nutritionally balanced, taxpayer - subsidized meal offered in the lunch room.

Second, according to Poppendieck, by offering junk food in the same venue as the regular meal, the school district may feel pressured to keep the federally subsidized school lunch competitive by offering its own version of «junk food» items (hence the prevalence of pizza on school menus).

Erica Goodman, a graduate student in media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, volunteers in the local schools as part of a campaign to boost participation in the subsidized meal program.

Upgraded nutrition standards — including more helpings of vegetables, more whole grains, fewer French fries and other potato products, and much less salt in food — are expected to cause more paying kids to reject the federally - subsidized hot meal.

In my district, someone in my food services department described how kids who couldn't partake in a la carte were getting their photos taken by cell phone in the «uncool» subsidized meal line to shame them, and some of these kids would rather go hungry than be seen standing in that line.

When she is describing all of the barriers she faces, keep in mind that she is not trying to be a naysayer; the challenges she faces, including the often ridiculous regulations, the criminally low federal reimbursement for subsidized meals, the high cost of food, labor, utilities, and every other expense, are all very real.

The jolt in demand for government - subsidized meals comes as many school programs are struggling to balance their food service budgets because of higher costs and a decline in paying customers, school nutrition advocates said.

Everyone else lives pretty much in a perpetual state of misery, trying to figure out how they can possibly serve good food on the few scheckels the federal government provides in its subsidized meal programs.

In October, the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services division, which oversees the subsidized meal program, circulated a memo saying that while it encourages the use of salad bars in schools, school menu planners must tell students the minimum amounts they must take from salad bars, cashiers «must be trained to judge accurately the quantities of self - service items,» and point of sale registers «must be stationed after the salad bar.»

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.

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.

Third, by eliminating the paid meal equity provision, the House Republicans» bill does exactly what it falsely accuses CEP of doing — it puts taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing meals for children from well - off families at the expense of children from lesser means.

Is the bar part of the subsidized meal or an a la carte purchase?

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

«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.

But the biggest problem I've had all along with this approach is that it does not address the needs of elementary school children, who are the biggest consumers of the federally - subsidized meals program.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

I've already written about the way such a system creates a real sense of «haves» and «have nots,» such that hungry kids on free / reduced lunch sometimes forgo a meal entirely rather than be seen in the «uncool» subsidized lunch line.

But only one in six of them will receive subsidized meals this summer.»

Improve the diet of poor families (eg, through subsidizing fruit and vegetables, community gardens, purchasing co-ops, school meals)

It will also relieve the sense of stigma and shame that often leads children to refuse subsidized meals — and go hungry — rather than let classmates find out that their families are poor.

as for the campaign war chest issue, it is unfortunate that many elected officials of both major partiese use campaign war chests for legal fees and even to subsidize their lifestyle (i.e. car payments, meals)

For example, in district W, only 6 percent of third graders had experienced a maltreatment investigation despite the fact that over 75 percent of children in the district are eligible for subsidized meals.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

Better measures of economic disadvantage can help us better understand the variation in outcomes within the population of children who are eligible for subsidized meals

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

Consider College Ready Academy No. 4, an Alliance school where 97 % of the 325 students qualify for subsidized meals, a poverty indicator.

In some school cafeterias, the sales of competitive foods end up being subsidized by federal school meal reimbursement.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

In Memphis, one of the poorest cities in the nation, 87 percent of students get subsidized meals, while 84 percent are black.

More than 17,000 high - poverty schools now offer free federally subsidized meals to about 8 million students through the provision, Vilsack announced at a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Washington.

In 1971, students of color, many of them poor, made up just 12 percent of public school enrollments; in 2015 minority enrollment sat at 52 percent — and more than half of all public school students were eligible for subsidized meals, a widely accepted metric for student poverty.

In one of the city's toughest neighborhoods, where nine in 10 students are poor enough for subsidized meals, Harrity was among the city's lowest performing.

Its middle - schoolers — 88 percent of whom qualify for subsidized meals — made their strongest showing in sixth - grade math last year, with 94 percent scoring proficient, compared with the state's average of 77 percent.

At Hamilton Elementary / Middle in Northeast Baltimore, 87 percent of elementary school students qualify for subsidized meals.

Many of these children depend upon subsidized school meals to supplement substandard diets at home; when summer arrives, that aid frequently goes away.