Elementary Classroom At Bb Elementary

One in four American children live in food-insecure households, meaning that they lack adequate access to food of any type, not just food with significant nutritional value (Ford, 2013, p. 58). As these families are the most likely to have children who both leave for and return home from school to an empty house, they are also the most likely to have children who prepare meals for themselves. Often, children fail to nourish themselves, skipping meals when they are running late or because they find nothing in the pantry they are capable of preparing. These students ready themselves (and sometimes siblings) for school and frequently don’t take their first meal until mid-day, losing precious hours of instructional time to distraction over food, fatigue due to low levels of nourishment, and other physical ailments tied to poor nutrition. If school breakfasts were free and readily available to all public school students, morning meals would be

In order to maximize our program’s ability to provide nutritious meals and snacks, we participate in the federal school nutrition programs, which includes the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. According to the Department of Agriculture, the National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program for public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions (2015). It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. On the same note, our program participates in School Breakfast Program. The department of Agriculture specifies that this program provides cash assistance to states to operate nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions. Both the National School Lunch Program, and the School Breakfast Program, ensures that the children receive the adequate nutrition while the our

The National School Lunch Program is an enormous federal program that has grown to become the second largest U.S. food and nutrition assistance program in both numbers of children served. In 2009, over 31 million children participated in the NSLP each school day at a cost of 9.3 billion to the Federal government. The SBP reached 11 million children at an additional cost of 2.4 billion. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers the program on the federal level and provides oversight of the states agencies that are responsible for the program, in Georgia, the department of education manages the statewide program. Ultimately, the success of the program resides with the local school district or each individual school food authority who implement the program to the students. The laws establishing the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program stated that schools had to run their nutrition programs profit free and set the monetary per meal rates to reimburse the individual school. Rates for school year 2009 were $2.72 for free lunches, $2.32 for reduced cost lunches and $.26 for paid lunches. Today, almost half of all lunches served are provided free to students, with an additional 10 percent provided at reduced prices. Although schools are not required to offer NSLP meals, 94 percent of schools, both public and private, choose to participate in the program. Little

“The National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, is a federally assisted meal program operating in over 101,000 public and non‐profit private schools and residential childcare institutions.” ("National school lunch," 2011) This government-run program is headed by the department of Food and Nutrition standards, a subgroup of the United States Department of Agriculture. “It provides nutritionally balanced, low‐cost or free lunches to more than 31 million children each school day in 2009.”

Despite all the effort and advantages laid out by the district in implementing the Flex Mod schedule,

Currently 66.9% of the student population at EMHS participates in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). 57.6% of students receive free lunch and 9.3% of students receive reduced lunch. The overall participation in the NSLP is higher than the North Carolina State average which is 57.2%. http://public-schools.startclass.com/l/66971/East-Montgomery-High To combat child hunger in its schools, including EHMS , MCS implemented a Universal Free Breakfast program (UFB). (Figure 3)

The National School Lunch Program is a federally funded meal program operating in over 100,000 public. It provides nutritionally balanced, low‐cost or free lunches to more than 31 million children each school day in 2012 based on the child's household income (USDA). The program is managed by the Food and Nutrition Service at the Federal level and by a State education agency at the state level. We will be looking at the statistics of the National Lunch Program for five local schools, and compare the number of students enrolled in the districts and the percentage that are receiving free or discounted meals at school. Additionally, the requirements to be eligible to participate in the program, as well as the reimbursement the school

How is our school addressing and reaching African American and Hispanic students? Students with Disabilities?

Therefore, modifying the Healthy Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010 is a great start to meeting the needs of a more diverse student body. In deciding to keep the program the same, active and athletic students leave school undernourished everyday. Consequently, students not receiving their nutritional needs could also quench their hunger with unhealthy alternatives. For example, they could choose to visit a gas station before a sport practice to get through the practice. A healthy lunch program is ineffective if, in effect, it causes students to consume more unhealthy alternatives. Overall, this either causes undernourished students or students indulging in unhealthy alternatives. Neither of these is a good outcome for the students health, it would more effective to offer a second serving of healthier food during

Currently, I am student teaching at Alfred E. Zampella PS #27 School in the district of Jersey City. The school is located in a busy city, next to John F. Kennedy St. which is especially busy in the morning and during rush hour. This results in several late students on a day to day basis. On the other hand, this school is also highly accessible and as a little over a thousand students. The school has grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade, and has a mix of general, special, and inclusion education classrooms. Typically, families that enroll their students into this school are of lower-middle socio-economic class, and tend to be majority Hispanic, Indian, and African American, with few Caucasians and Asians. This school provides a variety of special programs for their ESL students and special need students. Students may be offered speech language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ESL programs, reading recovery, and counseling.

“Fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school, and many of them get breakfast, too.” When summer hits the lunch programs aren't available to those students who need it. This leaves them without one or even two meals a day. Families don't always have the money to send their children to camps or services that provide them with a lunch

Schools in Orange county Florida have began to reduce or cancel recess all together so that students can spend more time in the classroom. But they are not alone administrators across the US are making similar changes. “In a nation of increasingly obese kids, getting rid of recess makes no sense.” (Caplan & Igel, 2015, para. 1) The reason behind all of removing kids from there minutes of free time and adding class time is due to common core examinations. There was not enough time in the day for teachers to be able to teach what the students needed in order to pass the test while still allowing their recess time.

Wilks, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs believed that “at BMCC, we have worked overtime to create a culture of care by taking responsibility for the whole student, for all the factors that affect student success.” (2018). Data from the report show that “71 percent of its students come from families earning less than $30,000 a year, many below the poverty line (BMCC, 2018). In the same report, a survey was done which show that out of 33,000 community college students, 56 percent reported food insecurity, or not having access to a reliable source of nutritional, affordable food (BMCC, 2018). Leading by example the Student Affair and Single Stop addressed the issue of food insecurity at BMCC by “providing cafeteria food vouchers and supermarket food gift cards, as well as assistance in processing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applications” (2018). On April, 24 2018 BMCC went a step further in taking care of the students’ needs by opening of the college’s new Panther Pantry. For those students who may be facing a food emergency can now visit Single Stop Office for a needs assessment will now be able to take home a three-day supply of nutritionally balanced, nonperishable food. This is a strong indication that BMCC is addressing the hunger need of its

Besides financially, providing free lunch for students and reducing hunger will help student’s academic performance in the classroom. This helps the teacher in the long run as students have better test performance’s, and are better behaved (Pyke, 2013.) According to No Kids Hungry annual education survey three quarters of America’s teachers say they have students who routinely show up to class hungry. (www.nokidhungry.org). Also in this report it states that many of the free and reduced lunch programs are hugely under enrolled. If students were able to receive free lunch and breakfast at schools, an estimated 3.2

The Nutritional School Lunch Program is federally assisted meal program, which provides lunch to public and private schools, and residential child care institutions. The goal of this program is to provide nutritionally balanced, free or low cost lunch to children every day. The private or public high schools are also eligible to participate in the school lunch program. The independent schools or school districts, who participate in this program gets cash subsidies and USDA food by serving meals. The schools in return, should serve the food that meet Federal requirements and also eligible children should get reduced cost or free meals. The USDA can also provide reimbursement to the school authority for the snacks served in enrichment program or afterschool education.