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What Comes after Lunch? Alternative Measures of Economic and Social Disadvantage and Their Implications for Education Research. Research in Education Fiscal Policy and Practice
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Thomas Downes Ed.; Kieran M. Killeen Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
Faced with the problem of how to measure the magnitude of economic disadvantage in the populations served by schools or districts, researchers addressing school finance topics have invariably turned to the fraction of students eligible for free- or reduced-lunches (FRPL). But the facile dependence on FRPL may be problematic. A large and growing…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Measurement Techniques, Lunch Programs
Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Program
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Schirm, Allen, Ed.; Kirkendall, Nancy, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of schoolchildren each day. To qualify their children each year for free or…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, School Districts, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
The Condition of K-12 Public Education in Maine: 2008
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Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2008
"Education Indicators" are facts and statistics that help to describe a public education system. They are tools which are useful in examining and measuring the effectiveness of the system. Examples include information such as the amount of local funds raised to support local schools, per pupil expenditures, pupil-teacher ratios, and…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators