(WHAS11)- Kentucky is one of three states expanding their school meal plan for children in need.
The Community Eligibility option will allow schools in high-poverty areas to eliminate applications and provide free breakfast and lunch to all students for the next four years.
Officials with the Department of Education say it will be less paperwork for schools and parents.
Schools that use the program agrees to provide the free meals and the United States Department of Agriculture will reimburse them.
What Price Global News? This panel discussion about the future of paying for robust international journalism was held at the BBC College of Journalism/POLIS conference at the London School of Economics. Chaired by Cilla Benko, Deputy Director-General of Swedish Radio, the discussion featured Peter Horrocks, head of the BBC World Service, Antonio Caprarica, London correspondent with Rai, Ignasi Guardans, Director of Public Affairs and Member Relations at EBU, and Hosam El Sokkari, Head of Audience at Yahoo! Middle East.
Five area students have each won $1,000 scholarships from Burger King’s Have It Your Way Foundation.
The recipients are: Aya Angstadt, Christine Fisher and Tate Krejci, from Rampart High School; Thomas Vera, The Classical Academy, and Marcia Nygaard, Doherty High School.
There were more than 31,000 applicants for the awards, with 1,249 students receiving them.
Recipients were selected based on their grade point average, work experience, extracurricular activities and community service.
After months of contention, a charter school will open within the boundaries of the Compton Unified School District. Advocates of the new “Parent Trigger” law are behind the new school.
Last week, the L.A. County Office of Education gave the Celerity charter school company the go-ahead to open an independent elementary school at Church of the Redeemer in Compton.
Celerity was part of a coalition that filed a petition six months ago to convert nearby McKinley Elementary School to a charter under California’s new Parent Trigger law. The law allows radical overhaul of a low-performing campus if a majority of parents sign on.
Compton Unified, with the support of the California Teachers Association, fought the effort tooth and nail. An L.A. Superior Court judge sided with school district in a tentative ruling; now the pro-charter coalition says it’s going to open its school nearby to serve parents who believe the district isn’t improving McKinley Elementary fast enough.
Despite the announcement, the charter advocates say they still hope to take over McKinley Elementary. State edu
After leading by a goal at the break, the Occidental College Tigers used a second-half surge to defeat the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, 7-5, in one of two Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference semi final games at the 2011 women’s water polo Tournament hosted by the University of La Verne at Las Flores Park in La Verne.
After the Sagehens got the scoring started, Oxy peppered the back of the PP net with three consecutive goals to take a 3-1 lead at the end of the first period. Rebecca Hofer tied things at 1-1 before Julie Monday twice added to the lead.
A defensive second half saw just a single goal, coming from the Hens, to pull the score to 3-2 at the intermission.
After the break, the Sagehens quickly tied things up at 3-3, but the lead was short lived as Oxy looked to sophomore Nanea Fujiyama for the first goal of a second-half hat-trick to give the Black and Orange an advantage they would not relinquish for the remainder of the contest.
After leading by a goal at the break, the Occidental College Tigers used a second-half surge to defeat the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, 7-5, in one of two Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference semi final games at the 2011 women’s water polo Tournament hosted by the University of La Verne at Las Flores Park in La Verne.