[ransomnote]

Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, is working with Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, to ”Solve this problem". States mentioned in the article include OK, MN, and MO. Since 2002, the gov allowed rural schools to use the number of students who qualify for free lunches to apply for grant funds. This was never part of the original funding plan. The Education Dept. announced it was going to revert to the traditional methods outlined in the funding program and that means severe cuts for some rural school districts. In MN, one district said 2/3 of it's students would no longer qualify, another school disrict (OK) said it would lose half it's funding. I'm wondering if this legislation is part of the reason why some school districts stopped determining which students were eligible for free school lunches and declared all were eligible citing administration costs and social stigma.

[samadams2000]

Shut it down. Failed experiment. Teach locally. Or not at all.

[MNJohnnie]

because they had not met eligibility requirements outlined in the federal education law since 2002.

Love how they simply lie outright in this story. THEY NOT LOSING FUNDING THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO HAVE HAS SINCE NY Times.

[hanamizu]

The semi-rural school I worked at really worked hard to get as many parents as possible to at least apply for free/reduced lunches. Prizes for students whose parents filled in the applications, that sort of thing. Besides getting the benefit of lunch subsidies, the more “poor” students a school has the more extra money they can get—I assume it is from this program.

[Salvavida]

Get the Feds out of this and give it to the states, implemented at the county level.

[ammodotcom]

‘Some Rural Schools Cut Off Federal Funding To Dept. Of Education’ would make a much better headline.

[MNJohnnie]

Amazing how many of these little slush funds we uncovering. Like all Govt programs most of this “funding” gets eaten up by the bureaucracy, who pay union dues that get donated exclusively to life time career politicians

[kingu]

Ooops, guess we shouldn’t have let school districts make blanket promises about lifetime benefits and retirements, nor let school districts pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for triple dipping ‘superintendents’ - otherwise, there’d be no mad scramble for funding when the feds pull (our) dollars.

Gotta fix the public employee benefits to fix the schools.

[Lurker]

Good. This program is fraud from top to bottom.

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[gnarledmaw]

Time to get American 6G running and shut down public schools.

[UnwashedPeasant]

NY Times is very concerned (during election season) that poor white rural Republican children will go hungry because the Dept of Education is following the law.

Meanwhile, Dept of Education is working with Congress to amend the law before the funding change takes effect.

No kids will go hungry.

The real story is restoration of the rule of law and government accountability under Trump.

[lastchance]

How is the money from this program applied? Does it directly benefit students?

[libertylover]

Wait, I thought Bloomberg said rural lives don’t matter and that big city NYT agreed.

[familyop]

It’s been horrible to see what public education and education programs in universities have done to generations of American minds over the past 50 years. That also has more than anything else to do with the march towards family destruction and socialism.

Did you see what was done to Brett Kavanaugh? That’s the real face of feminism. It’s a major prong for hard socialism, and we’re running out of time. Face it, and do something about it. Shut down the thousands of funding programs that feed it including public education.

[Wuli]

States with school district affected the most should quit complaining. IF such programs should exist, they should be state programs, not federal.