Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Crete, Dorchester Schools Have High Rates Of Free/Reduced Lunches



The National School Lunch Program is controversial. 

On one hand, this federally assisted meal program provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to qualified students through subsidies to schools. 

On the other hand, someone has to pay for this expensive redistribution program, which is funded by those of you who pay federal income taxes.  

In fiscal year 2013, federal school nutrition programs underwrote more than five billion lunches served to nearly 31 million students. Total funding for all nutrition programs sums to $16.3 billion in both cash and commodity payments in fiscal year 2014.

How many Saline County residents are using federal taxpayer dollars for free and reduced lunches in our schools? 

The Dorchester Times has accessed public reports to examine the free and reduced lunch utilization at Saline County high schools last school year.  Here is the data:

SCHOOL               ENROLLED              FREE LUNCH              REDUCED LUNCH          % OF STUDENTS

CRETE                     1852                   826                          173                      53.94%
DORCHESTER         182                     55                            15                       38.46%
FRIEND                     277                     43                            42                       30.69%
WILBER                    580                     116                          37                       26.38%

If you don't live in Saline County and want to see what percentage of students in your district are receiving free or reduced lunches, click here.

4 comments:

  1. This is no worse than walking into a walmart or caseys ................................ seeing people, usually full of tattoos and 100 lbs overweight, buying groceries on their "Nebraska" credit card ................ this is a way to sugarcoat and normalize food stamps and welfare ................................ tired of busting my a-- so white trash, ghetto trash and third worlders can sit on theirs......................................

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    1. First time EVER I agree with CR!!

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    2. Cynical for President! Why not?

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    3. By the way, you can thank your little social workers who "educate" people on how to live on the system for this.

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