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Showing Original Post only (View all)Some charter schools don't feed their students free lunches. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is cool with that. [View all]
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/veto-pits-charter-school-autonomy-against-affordable-meals-18246Arguing that he did not want to "erode the independence and flexibility" of charter schools, Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend vetoed legislation that would have required charters to provide low-income students free or reduced-price meals....
"Access to these meals is a pretty basic, essential resource that all students should be able to receive. We never saw it as tied into the politics of charter schools or their educational autonomy," said Alexis Fernandez, a nutrition policy advocate at California Food Policy Advocates, which sponsored the legislation....
A similar proportion of California students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals in both charter and traditional public schools about 56 percent and 57 percent, respectively. But charter schools, which enrolled more than 412,000 students last year, are exempt from a state law that requires public schools to provide low-income students with a meal meeting federal nutrition standards each school day....
The 2010 audit surveyed 213 charter schools that were identified in state data as offering classroom-based instruction but not participating in federal meal programs. Of the 133 schools that responded, 41 said they did in fact participate in the programs. Forty-six said they offered alternative meal programs with a range of costs, and 39 said they did not provide meals mainly because they lacked resources such as funding, staff, a kitchen or a cafeteria. The remaining seven do not provide meals because their students receive instruction outside the classroom or their students are 18 or older and are not eligible to participate in the programs.
"Access to these meals is a pretty basic, essential resource that all students should be able to receive. We never saw it as tied into the politics of charter schools or their educational autonomy," said Alexis Fernandez, a nutrition policy advocate at California Food Policy Advocates, which sponsored the legislation....
A similar proportion of California students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals in both charter and traditional public schools about 56 percent and 57 percent, respectively. But charter schools, which enrolled more than 412,000 students last year, are exempt from a state law that requires public schools to provide low-income students with a meal meeting federal nutrition standards each school day....
The 2010 audit surveyed 213 charter schools that were identified in state data as offering classroom-based instruction but not participating in federal meal programs. Of the 133 schools that responded, 41 said they did in fact participate in the programs. Forty-six said they offered alternative meal programs with a range of costs, and 39 said they did not provide meals mainly because they lacked resources such as funding, staff, a kitchen or a cafeteria. The remaining seven do not provide meals because their students receive instruction outside the classroom or their students are 18 or older and are not eligible to participate in the programs.
The SOB is actually taking food out of kids' mouths! If he had an (R) after his name, half of DU would be calling for his head on a pike!
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Some charter schools don't feed their students free lunches. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is cool with that. [View all]
KamaAina
Oct 2012
OP
Not so unlikely, because some charter schools have ways of avoiding 'those' students.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#54
yeah, none of the charter schools DUers support are like that, apparently. they're all wonderful
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#64
If a student lives in a district, s/he has to be provided an education in a district. That's the
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#74
a charter does *not* have to accept all students from its district, nor does it have to follow the
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#87
cafeterias and food cut into corporate profits and management bonuses. can't have that nt
msongs
Oct 2012
#16
Speaking of 'simple-minded,' none so blind as those with eyes who will not see. Jeesh - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#23
You must meet the same standards that the public schools must if you are to
MattBaggins
Oct 2012
#52
But they *don't* have to meet the same standards to receive federal money. That's the point.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#58
It's actually pretty astonishing what NC charters don't have to do. Don't have to do lunches,
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#57
No lunches and no transportation are what keeps many people without means from applying
Luminous Animal
Oct 2012
#53
Schools that provide lunches are reimbursed. And as initially, the only charter authorizers in NC
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#56
it's not a complicated issue. it's very simple. there's nothing that charter schools do that
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#76
there is nothing charter schools do that public schools can't do. there's nothing charter schools
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#86
You cherry pick your students and have no low income kids i am willing to bet.
MattBaggins
Oct 2012
#45
Around 1965, I believe. Free & reduced-price lunches for families who met the income guides.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#59
*All* charter schools are public schools, in that they are funded with tax dollars. However, that's
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#60
Jerry Brown sleeps very well at night. Not a disingenous bone in his beautiful body
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#73
you're sleeping with him, are you? because otherwise i don't know how you know that.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#77
we do know Sandra Dey O'Connor twists and turns (and Rehnquist burns in hell)
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#80
brown's policies show him to be a libertarian: liberal on (some) social policy, neo-liberal on
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#88
libertarians are rightwing extremists who stroke their guns and watch others sex...
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#91
Those that are not for profit are eligible for federal lunch program funds.
LiberalAndProud
Oct 2012
#17
Even supposedly 'non-profit' charters can be profit centers. In NC, for example, charters can
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#62
I think we (USA) should provide a free hot lunch for every kid in every school,
CrispyQ
Oct 2012
#13
Very easy solution. Go back to public school and free lunches for those in need.
Doremus
Oct 2012
#20
The problem comes from many charter schools that are basically storefronts or in a few offices -
haele
Oct 2012
#22
At least one charter chain, Imagine, is basically built around a real-estate scam
KamaAina
Oct 2012
#36
Governor Brown -- comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted. I will never vote for
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#24
Charter schools are not public schools, but they syphon money from public schools.
Chorophyll
Oct 2012
#25
Or it could be that the school does not have the facility to safely provide the lunch.
wildeyed
Oct 2012
#31
I guess that parents will just send their kids to public schools so that they can get fed, right?
Freddie Stubbs
Oct 2012
#40
You are assuming that enough parents would send their kids to these obviously inferior
Freddie Stubbs
Oct 2012
#79
It's federal law, so it's hard to imagine it didn't exist in your district. Perhaps you didn't have
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#75
and in many schools, great pains were taken so that the kids on the free-lunch
SoCalDem
Oct 2012
#81
What else will be exempted for charter schools so they can make a bigger profit?
LiberalFighter
Oct 2012
#65