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Twenty million students in the U.S. qualified for free or reduced school lunches last year. Still, some families are responsible for more than $260 million in school lunch debt nationwide every year.But the United States Department of Agriculture just changed the rules, making more schools eligible for a program to provide free breakfast and lunch to students, and more local districts are signing up.
To qualify for the program, a least 25% of the district must be eligible for free or reduced lunch; then, the school district will be partially reimbursed by the USDA for each meal served.School districts around Northeast Ohio have been dealing with growing lunch debt following the pandemic when federal funds covered free lunch for all students.“It was a little difficult for us to get them to get used to paying and so we had a large debt we kept on top of it,” said Beegle.
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