Lunch data debate growing: "(By Ann Doss Helms, ahelms@charlotteobserver.com) With millions of dollars riding on school-poverty data and massive cuts looming for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a long-running debate over the validity of those numbers is resurfacing.
CMS recently announced that just over 74,000 kids, or 53 percent of all students, are getting federal lunch subsidies for low-income families this year."