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Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election? | Marcus Weaver-Hightower

Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election? | Marcus Weaver-Hightower


Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election? | Marcus Weaver-Hightower
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By most measures, the Minnesota program has been successful and popular. Participation in the meals program soared, increasing 15% at lunch and 37% at breakfast compared with the previous year. Due to those increases, the economies of scale improved, and some districts have been able to invest more in scratch cooking with ingredients from local farmers. It turns out that relieving cafeteria staff of the duty to go after parents who fall behind on lunch payments leaves them more time to focus on food quality.

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