Showing posts with label community eligibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community eligibility. Show all posts
Sunday, August 9, 2026

We're losing kids on free lunch

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 Hey, remember how we've noted that as we lose SNAP enrollment, we're going to lose free lunch enrollment? That has now started to ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

on Massachusetts free lunch

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While I'm still working to update my spreadsheet on the  FY24 conference committee budget  now on Governor Healey's desk, I did want...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

On AP, "advanced coursework," and how budget and policy can't be separated

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While I tweeted out some of this yesterday, I wanted to talk some more about this article from Scott O'Connell on Worcester's ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Senate Ways and Means budget

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I posted my notes on reviewing this yesterday  in a thread here .  Moving along... The Senate Ways and Means page is here ; above, the...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Novick Reports: Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds conference in sum

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As shared with MASC earlier today: Earlier this week, I attended the  Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds  child nutrition conference, which M...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds conference

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Not sure yet how I'll divide this one up...coming up is an update on the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act and other legislation, changes in...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The Senate budget on K-12 education

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The Senate budget is now posted.  Nearly all of the following can be found under the "Appropriations" tab of the Senate post; I tw...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Worcester school meetings this week

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There is an Accountability meeting Tuesday at 5:30 pm. On that agenda: review of the PARCC and MCAS scores for 2015; the impact of Communi...
Friday, April 22, 2016

House Child Nutrition bill would hit remove some from universal free lunch

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The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education released their reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act yes...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Important analysis from MassBudget on low income and free lunch

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Two reports came out from MassBudget last week: First, there's an analysis of how direct certification --that's the process by wh...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Costs per breakfast over time

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Interesting chart from USDA : As always, you can click to make it bigger. The numbers are from the last available data, which is fro...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Concerns around the connection between universal free lunch and school funding

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I got a question yesterday about this coverage of concerns from Everett and Revere about how the loss of the free and reduced lunch measure...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

CPPAC

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Superintendent Boone: look forward to being here in September and talk about what's exciting and connect with you throughout the year,...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?

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NOT US!! (click to make it bigger) UPDATE: And what's for lunch? If you're in an elementary school without a kitchen, you...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Community eligibility for lunch

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O'Connell asks for information about applying for grants as part of discussion Boone: why we haven't applied as yet, state has now ...

Worcester School Committee meets this afternoon

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As it is a summer meeting, please note that it starts at 4 pm. Also, it has been MOVED to the Durkin Administration building, 4th floor. You...
Monday, June 22, 2015

The invisible poor

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As I mentioned in passing last week , the Board of Ed is getting a presentation tomorrow from the administration on a change-- as far as I ...