Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True enough, but the school program has now grown to the point where it benefits students who are in little danger of starving, as well as those who live precariously on the lower edge of society. Some examples...
...under new guidelines, it will have to charge students 75? for a full-fare lunch and 35? for a reduced-price meal. The school has not yet completed processing income-report forms from parents, however, so for the moment the free meals continue. The total cost of the Eastman program in the last school year: $336,375, of which 40% was contributed by the Federal Government. The lunches are plain: on one day, a hot dog and bun, three-eighths of a cup of watery beans and three-eighths of a cup of canned peaches. The children wolfed down...
Despite the waste of food, no one at Eastman doubts that the lunch program has been of great benefit since it began in 1969. Says School Nurse Lydia Chacon: "Absenteeism has gone down a lot. I don't see kids staying out of school for three days at a time, and I see far fewer colds or crankiness among the little children...
...people doubt, either, that the program nationally has played a valuable part in dramatically reducing American hunger and malnutrition in recent years. But the inflation of the late 1970s reached an intolerable point, dictating an effort to chop the huge budget deficits that have been feeding it. In the view of David Stockman, Reagan's chief budget slasher, school lunch subsidies are "a perfect example of an entitlement program that should be reviewed. It entitles a lot of middle-class people to a trivial subsidy, which is nonsensical, because they pay their school lunch bill on April...
...changes are designed to shift the emphasis of the program from benefiting all children to serving the neediest. In some of the poorest districts, the cutbacks will have little effect. For example, about 84% of the 3,600 public school students in Lee County, S.C., are black, and 86% of them get free lunches. That will enable the county schools to collect a special 2?-per-meal subsidy paid to schools in which 60% or more of the meals served are free and reduced-price lunches. The county expects to receive the same $350,000 in cash subsidies that...