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ERIC Number: EJ1414043
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 41
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1011
There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: School Meals, Stigma, and Student Discipline
Thurston Domina; Leah Clark; Vitaly Radsky; Renuka Bhaskar
American Educational Research Journal, v61 n2 p287-327 2024
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high-poverty schools to offer free meals to all students regardless of household income. Conceptualizing universal meal provision as a strategy to alleviate stigma associated with school meals, we hypothesize that CEP implementation reduces the incidence of suspensions, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds and minoritized students. We link educational records for students enrolled in Oregon public schools between 2010 and 2017 with administrative data describing their families' household income and social safety net program participation. Difference-in-differences analyses indicate that CEP has protective effects on the probability of suspension for students in participating schools, particularly for students from low-income families, students who received free or reduced-price meals prior to CEP implementation, and Hispanic students.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
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Identifiers - Location: Oregon
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act 2010
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