School districts around the country are drowning in students’ lunch debt. Three months after the federal government stopped providing free school meals to all public school students, some ...

Garrett Jones’ six-second video quickly sparked a wave of generosity that would pay off thousands of dollars worth of student lunch debt. “School lunch should be free,” wrote Jones ...

Since that program ended, it’s been all downhill. The Appleseed report compares school lunch debt before and after the pandemic — bear in mind there was none during it. “Prior to the ...

Yes, lunch debt was real, she told me. Yes, it affected children in our district. Yes, it was about $88,000 just for elementary schools, just in my district. And then, almost as an afterthought ...

One critical component of the experiment was to ensure that public school students had free lunches via the Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch program, regardless of family income.

and no report card. “To me, it’s not fair,” parent Brianna Darga said. “They are probably already feeling a little bit of shame.” The school wrote it has $4,500 in student lunch debt.

NEWTON SCHOOLS WILL START THE YEAR FREE OF LUNCH DEBT THANKS TO A COMMUNITY CHALLENGE. NOW, THE MAN WHO STARTED IT SAYS OTHER SCHOOLS SHOULD COPY THE IDEA. SCHOOL LUNCH IS CONSIDERED A LEARNING ...

(WSMV/Gray News) – A school secretary in Tennessee was arrested last month after detectives say she stole two elementary students’ pandemic food benefit cards to buy groceries. On Nov. 18 ...

a school lunch bill. Federal lawmakers in 2022 allowed pandemic-era school meal rules, which made meals free for all students through the crisis, to expire. The expiration came as food prices ...

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — During the entire month of May, FOX 13 News is working to eliminate school lunch debt, an issue we’ve covered extensively since 2023. When you look at your receipts ...

Student debt from unpaid meals is soaring after the vast majority of Connecticut schools returned to a paid lunch model at the start of the 2023 to 2024 school year. A midyear meal debt report ...