claim: says students who receive free or reduced lunch are "performing just as well" as students who do not.
author: thad altman
evidence_1: aug 8, 2018 ... healthful meals at school, coupled with a safe, student-focused ... applications for  free and reduced-price school meals are being made ... families receiving fns  or ca do not need to complete an ... your child's application is only good for that  school year and for the first few days of this school year.
evidence_2: jan 22, 2015 ... and those problems can lead to children who don't perform as well in school.  simply put: “healthy students are better learners,” according to rochelle ... is  wrong with all the food we're eating — it's not just in the schools,” davis says. ...  schools receive $2.68 for each free meal served through the national ...
evidence_3: dec 7, 2016 ... of course, nutrition has an impact on k-12 students as well, from their ... if 19.2  million students are receiving free lunches due to their socioeconomic status,  school lunch could be their only opportunity for a nutritious meal each day. ...  school lunches had reached a point where they were not providing the ...
evidence_4: may 3, 2017 ... students get their lunch from a salad bar at the school cafeteria as some of more  ... how the quality of school lunch affects students' academic performance ... in  2010, president barack obama signed the healthy, hunger-free kids act. ... not  only that, the test score increases are about 40 percent larger for ...
evidence_5: feb 29, 2016 ... an exclusive analysis uncovers that students of color in the largest 100 ... are  eligible for free lunch; the remainder can obtain reduced price ... the  concentration of poverty among students of color afflicts not only ... the issue,  reardon said, isn't “that sitting next to a poor kid makes you do less well in school .