School lunch programs are already under financial strain, and now that they face a loss of federal subsidies, districts could be forced to cut budgets elsewhere. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Texas education educationnews nutrition Congress
Even under Congress' Keep Kids Fed Act, which was designed to address inflation and other pressures, reimbursement under the program often runs a few cents short of what it costs to produce a school lunch, according to NEISD's Glosson. Scaled up across an entire district, those pennies start to add up.
Along with income verification, the forms request sensitive information such as income verification and Social Security numbers. Social Security numbers also are unavailable to undocumented immigrant families. "Prior to [COVID] we had seven serving lines. Now we have four," Kates said, referring to one particularly hard-hit campus.
More than 70% of the debt in Salina County is from families on full-pay status, according to the report. San Antonio's comparatively low levels of unpaid school lunch debt comes down to the number of schools or entire districts in the city that that the feds consider economically disadvantaged, experts said.
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