Sentences with phrase «well children on free school meals»

For the first time, it will include a specific measure of how well children on free school meals are doing.

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CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

This is certainly the intent of the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs, which offer free and reduced meals to children, based on their families» income, as well as full - price meals to any student.

SNA championed better nutrition for children for 67 years and supported the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act, which called on the Agriculture Department to require schools to provide healthier meals in exchange for an increase in federal spending on school lunches.

Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said that grammar schools have a «track record of closing the attainment gap to almost zero between children on free school meals and their better off classmates».

But in secondary schools, the attainment gap between children on free school meals (FSM) and their better - off peers has refused to budge in a decade.

«We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.

Results of national tests known as Sats taken by 10 and 11 - year - olds in England show that children on free school meals do less well than their classmates, and the pattern continues to GCSE level.

Therefore, with the same level of attainment, a child on free school meals does better in a grammar school than they would if they went to a non-grammar school.

We know that the education gap between children on free school meals who go to grammars and their better - off counterparts is closed during the course of their education.

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

Within that system, in particular, children from low - income families, on free school meals or in receipt of the pupil premium are doing especially well in our grammar schools.

Mr Laws told delegates it was «quite literally intolerable» that in some schools and certain areas of the country almost eight in 10 children on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - failed to get five good GCSEs, including maths and English.