Sentences with phrase «unpaid meal charges»

Unpaid meal charges are a growing national problem, and schools are asking the USDA to address it as part of its oversight of the nation's school lunch program.

According to a PowerPoint presentation from the SNA's 2013 Legislative Action Conference, called «The Perpetual Problem of Unpaid Meal Charges», the USDA says student nutrition programs are under no obligation to feed children whose parents will not pay.

This may be too much inside baseball, but in my school district, some of those unpaid meal charges are coming from students whose «temporary» eligibility expired.

But when unpaid meal charges get out of hand, the problem can quickly threaten the financial stability of the school nutrition program.

Many school districts have been forced to establish policies on unpaid meal charges — ranging from providing alternate meals, to allowing students to «charge» a certain number of meals before receiving an alternate meal.

The School Nutrition Association is calling on Congress and USDA (http://www.schoolnutrition.org/Blog2.aspx?id=19811&blogid=564) to ease the Paid Meal Equity provision, and to provide school districts with guidance on managing unpaid meal charges.

In either case, the unpaid meal charge quandary is an emotional one for school nutrition professionals — they know the impact a meal (or lack of a meal) can have on a student's ability to focus in school, and they never want children to go hungry.

SNA has updated unpaid meal charge talking points to assist members in responding to questions about meal charge policies and to educate parents, reporters and legislators on the challenges school nutrition professionals face when students are unable to pay for their school meals.

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Not exact matches

For many schools, the problem of unpaid school meal charges stems more from students who are not eligible for free or reduced price meals, but consistently fail to bring their lunch money (sometimes parents forget to pay, and sometimes — particularly in this economy — they struggle to pay).

This area gets even trickier because not every student on «paid» status actually does pay — some school districts allow student with no free or reduced eligibility and no money to pay for their lunch, to «charge» the cost of the meal, and then try later to collect these unpaid charges from the family, often with mixed success.