Food Fight: How 2 Trump Proposals Could Bite Into School Lunch

NPR reports that the proposed changes could hurt schools’ bottom line beyond the cafeteria. Districts receive extra help from the federal government, in the form of Title I dollars, to serve vulnerable, low-income students. But districts commonly dispense these funds to individual schools based on enrollment in the free and reduced-price lunch program.

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America’s Education Problem

Students sit in a dimly lit classroom with an American flag hanging in front of a window, a subtle reminder of America's education problem.

How have decades of attempted reform, and billions of dollars, failed to improve students’ performance across the country? The Daily explores what has happened to the US education system despite real efforts to improve literacy and national test scores.

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