The National School Lunch Program Provides Free or Moderate-Cost Meals

question 24

Multiple Choice

The National School Lunch Program provides free or moderate-cost meals to children from families who:

• A) are at nutritional risk.
• B) have food insecurity.
• C) receive food stamps.
• D) meet federal poverty guidelines.

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Definitions:

De Facto Segregation

Racial segregation that occurs in schools, workplaces, and residential areas, not as a result of laws, but as a result of patterns of inequality in society.

African American

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Public School

In the United States, a school maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and obliged to provide a minimum standard of education.

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