Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Online system to help track meal purchases
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Are you the parent who has forgotten to dole out lunch money more than once?
Tired of that automated phone call that your child's lunch account is low?
Do you hate writing checks?
Or maybe you want to know exactly what your little one purchased in the lunch line, a la carte items included?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then you may stand to benefit from a new program launched by Roanoke County Public Schools. It is an online service used to prepay for meals using a credit or debit card and check purchases.
The program is operated by www.mylunchmoney.com.
"Enrolling and adding money to a lunch account is simple and completed online," said Ed Tutle, the school system's nutrition services supervisor. "Once a student's account is established, parents can check balances, view student purchases and add money to their child's account via computer, phone or fax."
Parents can enroll at www.mylunchmoney.com by using the child's lunch identification number. School spokesman Chuck Lionberger said a $1.95 fee applies to each transaction. More information, including answers to frequently asked questions, is available on the company's Web site.
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The Burger King Scholars Program gave $1,000 scholarships to 27 Virginia high school seniors last school year. Recipients in Western Virginia include: Paige Baumann from Cave Spring High School, Vanessa Chapman from Northside High School, Brandi Compton from William Byrd High School and Christopher Richards of Jefferson Forest High School.
The winners were chosen based on five criteria: grade point average, work experience, financial need, community service and extracurricular involvement.
Applications can be found at haveityourwayfoundation.org.
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Roanoke school officials recently completed a crisis planning tabletop exercise -- the culmination of an 18-month process to train school leaders in security and emergency preparedness.
A $630,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education made the training possible. About half of the grant was used to hire a consulting firm, National School Safety and Security Services, to work with employees on emergency plans. Some money was used to put schools' emergency plans on a secure Web site accessible by first responders and to make the district's rapid notification system accessible to parents who don't speak English.
