By Jane Meredith Adams

Never has school lunch meant so much for California education.

Delivering significantly more money to schools based on the number of low-income children they serve is at the heart of the sweeping new K-12 finance system approved by the state Legislature in June. The new system defines “low income” as those students eligible for the school’s free and reduced-price meals program.

via School finance reform prompts dispute over counting low-income students | EdSource Today.