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2. Food and Nutrition – National Center for Homeless Education

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   The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-265) expands federal child nutrition programs in several ways to assist homeless, migrant, foster, and runaway children and youth by providing: Automatic eligibility for free school meals. Streamlined procedures for documenting eligibility. Full school year eligibility for free ...

3. Best Practices in Interagency Collaboration Access to Food ...

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   The McKinney-Vento Act authorizes the federal EHCY program. The purpose of the EHCY program is to ensure that children and youth experiencing homelessness have access to a free, appropriate public education. The McKinney- Vento Act establishes the educational definition of a homeless child or youth (see the sidebar on page one), authorizes ...

4. School meal programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In the United States, school meals are provided either at no cost or at a government-subsidized price, to students from low-income families. These free or subsidized meals have the potential to increase household food security, which can improve children's health and expand their educational opportunities. [1]

5. Summer Food Service Program - Wikipedia

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   The Summer Food Service Program ( SFSP) began in 1968. It was an amendment to the National School Lunch Act. Today, the SFSP is the largest federal resource available for local sponsors who want to combine a child nutrition program with a summer activity program. [2] Sponsors can be public or private groups, such as non-profit organizations ...

6. Access to Food for Homeless and Highly Mobile Students

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   The Act provides funding to local agencies for providing housing specifically for unaccompanied runaway and homeless youth. These funds support street outreach, short-term shelter, and longer-term transitional living and maternity group home programs that serve U.S. youth who run away from home, are asked to leave their homes, or become homeless.

7. Concentration of Public School Students Eligible for Free or ...

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   In the United States, 1 the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides eligible students with free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL). 2 The percentage of students in a school who are eligible for FRPL can provide a substitute measure for the concentration of low-income students in the school. 3 In this indicator, public schools (including both traditional and charter) are divided into ...

8. NCES Blog | Free or reduced price lunch: A proxy for poverty?

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   Percentage of public school students in low-poverty and high-poverty schools, by race/ethnicity: School year 2012-13. NOTE: High-poverty schools are defined as public schools where more than 75.0 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL), and low-poverty schools are defined as public schools where 25.0 percent or less of the students are eligible for FRPL.

9. Distributing School Meals | National Center on Safe ... - ed

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   Headquarters. 1400 Crystal Drive, 10th Floor. Arlington, VA 22202-3289. +1.800.258.8413 | ncssle@air.org. The contents of the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments Web site were assembled under contracts from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Supportive Schools to the American Institutes for Research (AIR ...