Barry Sackin, a lobbyist at the American School Food Service Association, a trade group, said federal school meal reimbursement rates had barely kept up with inflation, much less the actual cost of meals.
Furthermore, CAM is becoming more mainstream within the healthcare system as demonstrated by the integration into medical school curriculum, reimbursement by some third-party payers for selected alternative therapies, and the development of the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health [ 3, 12- 15].
The bill, which will take effect on July 1, sets aside up to $4.7 million in state school-lunch reimbursement funds to districts that voluntarily follow the dietary guidelines.
Specifically, his cuts came in three areas: Medicaid reimbursements; school transportation; and educational bureaucracy.
Some schools offer tuition reimbursements to aides.
The state audit of the Colorado Virtual Academy, which found that the state paid for students who were not attending the school, ordered the reimbursement of more than $800,000.
But now, because California has reduced local support to schools, including the reimbursements for out-of-district students, the so-called permit students are more of a burden to the schools than a boon.
And for a school to get reimbursement, that milk's got to be offered.
Assemblyman Steven Sanders, a Manhattan Democrat who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, said the state had long shortchanged the city on reimbursements for school construction costs.
Under Mr. Pataki's budget, the state would sell bonds to furnish $204 million to the city in reimbursements for school aid that the city has complained it has been owed for years.
