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  title info:
    title: Using American Community Survey data to expand access to the school meals programs
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Panel on Estimating Children Eligible for School Nutrition Programs Using the American Community Survey.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Schirm, Allen L.
  name:
    name part: Kirkendall, Nancy J. (Nancy Jean)
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Committee on National Statistics.
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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 reduced-price meals, many families must submit applications that school officials distribute and review. To reduce this burden on families and schools and to encourage more children to partake of nutritious meals, USDA regulations allow school districts to operate their meals programs under special provisions that eliminate the application process and other administrative procedures in exchange for providing free meals to all students enrolled in one or more school in a district. FNS asked the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics and Food and Nutrition Board to convene a panel of experts to investigate the technical and operational feasibility of using data from the continuous American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate students eligible for free and reduced-price meals for schools and school districts. The ACS eligibility estimates would be used to develop "claiming percentages" that, if sufficiently accurate, would determine the USDA reimbursements to districts for schools that provided free meals to all students under a new special provision that eliminated the ongoing base-year requirements of current provisions. Using American Community Survey Data to Expand Access to the School Meals Program was conducted in two phases. It first issued an interim report (National Research Council, 2010), describing its planned approach for assessing the utility of ACS-based estimates for a special provision to expand access to free school meals. This report is the final phase which presents the panel's findings and recommendations."--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The school meals programs -- Technical approach -- Data analysis and results -- A plan for implementing the AEO -- Recommendations for future work.
  table of contents: Appendices: Glossary of acronyms and terms -- Estimates of eligible students using the American Community Survey -- Model-based estimates for school districts and school attendance areas -- American Community Survey (ACS) and small area income and poverty estimates (SAIPE)-like tabulations requested from the U.S. Census Bureau -- Data collected from school districts -- Addiitonal information about the panel's analyses -- Causes of systematic differences between American Community Survey (ACS) and administrative estimates.
  note: Panel on Estimating Children Eligible for School Nutrition Programs Using the American Community Survey; Allen L. Schirm and Nancy J. Kirkendall, editors ; Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223).
  subject:
    topic: School children
    topic: Food
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: School children
    topic: Nutrition
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  classification: 371.716
  identifier: 9780309257206
  identifier: 0309257204
  identifier: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php
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  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 120711
    record change date: 20151203084052.0
    record identifier: in00002852671
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng