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Download full textGreenberg, Erica – Urban Institute, 2018
Free and reduced-price lunch status has long been used as a proxy measure for student poverty. This brief offers a short history of school lunch and its recent decline as a measure of economic disadvantage. It then provides a primer on "direct certification," the most promising alternative, which links student enrollment with public…
Descriptors: Poverty, Lunch Programs, Low Income Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC. – 1993
During the school year, the School Lunch Program provides one-third to one-half of the nutrients low-income children consume every day. However, the rate of participation by eligible children in the Summer Food Service Program is only 15.5 percent of the target population. Created by Congress in 1968, the Summer Food Service Program is designed to…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Lunch Programs
