Dallas ISD spends $2.62 per meal served
Submitted by Aren Cambre on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 16:00.
EDIT (7/25/2010): Tom Benning confirmed that the DMN article is unclear. The meal count is in fact a daily count, so Dallas ISD serves about 176,000 meals or snacks per day, or 31,680,000 per academic year. Assuming 180 school days, this is about $2.62 per meal or snack served. The article's title was corrected to reflect this new finding.
Dallas Morning News reporter Tom Benning reports that Dallas ISD will spend $83,000,000 on its school food program for the 2010-2011 school year, delivering "120,000 lunches, 46,000 breakfasts and 10,000 after-school snacks" to schoolchildren.
While a professional reporter would use a bunch of words, this reporter will lay out the bare math: $83,000,000 รท (120,000 + 46,000 + 10,000 meals) = $454.55 per meal served.
Is Dallas ISD really spending $454.55 for each of my son's school lunches?
Mr. Benning has been contacted, and we'll update you once we get a response.
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DISD Job Postings
On the postings for custodians, why is "ability to communicate in Spanish is a plus"? You're cleaning the building!
What's wrong with that?
In a number of poor communities, the custodian is held with high regard. A few are church leaders, maybe even deacons for that matter. Why? In their communities, they are the ones holding steady jobs. They are the 1st to arrive and literally the last ones to leave. They know where everything is located. They have to know because they clean it.
So if a Spanish parent, who doesn't know English very well, needs to find the registrar; they usually find a custodian in the halls sweeping the floor who will direct them in their language, where to go.
When serving the public at large, the ability to communicate in the language of the masses is a plus. That's just the way it is.
fed money
What about how much the district gets from the fed for each free lunch?
here is your answer.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Governance/notices/naps/NAPs10-11.pdf
They get a lot and most of the food gets thrown out. If they have left over bags they toss it out.
They get Fed money for the paid lunches too.
Great Idea
Yeah DISD will save a lot of money by not providing school lunches. Let them go off campus to Mickey D's. Awesome idea.
Math
Um- math is not as basic as this at least not in the real world or or maybe I'm just confused by the other replies.
Aside from the cost of the food itself, there is still the cost of payroll hours, taxes, benefits, kitchen maint, appliances, overhead, delivery and fuel, waste disposal, dishes, and so on plus any contractual obligations-(did you know you can actually pay a penalty if you don't purchase the amount you agreed to in a food contract!) and so on, right?
So it's not just how much it costs for the food itself.
My 5 year old had a lemonade stand over the summer and was able to calculate his expenses to income ratio- then again that is probably becasue we home school him.
The only kids who could do that in DISD are the drug dealers, they are probably the smartest of them all- just in the wrong field.
DISD Math at work!
So if the list price for lunch is $1.50, and $1.00 for breakfast, and say $1 for snack (all taken from the DISD web site) the numbers crunch as such
120,000x$1.50 = $180,000
46,000 x $1.00= $ 46,000
10,000 x $1.00 =$ 10,000
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$236,000 per day
days in the school year 36 x 5 = 180
Equals $42,480,000.00 which is a lot less that $83,000,000.00
ok add 16 days for summer school, for a small percentage of the kids, it is still way off.
And consider at least 10% of the kids pay at least part or whole price.
Say Ed.. we need some real transparency here!
That is served daily
The amount for each meal or snack is different
I am so glad they are no longer serving that yucky nacho trash. I hope the kids will enjoy the new menu!
That makes more sense.
That makes more sense. http://www.dallasisd.org/about/geninfo.htm says DISD has 160,000 students. Awaiting full clarification from DMN reporter.