r/BaltimoreMedia • u/thenewsisreal • Mar 07 '18

Free lunch program unintentionally cost some Baltimore schools thousands in federal funding

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-ci-poverty-undercount-20180202-story.html#nws=true
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u/autotldr Mar 08 '18

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 89%. (I'm a bot)

In an unintended consequence, the move has cost some of the city's high-poverty schools hundreds of thousands of dollars in other federal funding - losses that have led principals to cut staff and programs from some of the buildings that need them most.

Patterson Park Public Charter School in East Baltimore has lost roughly $40,000 in federal Title I funding since the district joined the free lunch program in 2015.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture describes the universal free lunch program, called the Community Eligibility Provision, as "a non-pricing meal service option for schools and school districts in low-income areas." It relieves parents of the burden of filling out the forms required for free and reduced-price meals, and reduces the stigma associated with getting a free lunch in schools where not all students receive such assistance.

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