Lawmakers pass bill to keep schools from suing over student meal debt By Noah Fleischman Capital News Service | February 22, 2021 at 7:38 PM EST - Updated February 22 at 10:21 PM
RICHMOND, Va. - Adelle Settle learned in 2017 that school lunches were being taken out of children’s hands when they couldn’t pay for the meal. Instead, children were given a cheese sandwich or a snack.
Settle was inspired to start Settle the Debt, a nonprofit organization that pays off school meal debt at Prince William County schools. The organization has raised almost $200,000 in almost four years, Settle said.
“It leaves the kid hungry, you’re not giving the child an adequate meal at that point and people see it,” Settle said. “It makes them feel terrible about themselves, so I just wanted to make sure that we were not stigmatizing children in a place where they go to feel safe.”
Lawmakers pass bill to keep schools from suing over student meal debt
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Chesterfield Schools to allow all students to return to in-person learning
By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff
Posted at 5:03 PM, Feb 09, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-09 23:43:56-05
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. The Chesterfield County School Board has unanimously decided Tuesday that middle and high school students will return to in-person learning on March 9th.
Under the newly approved plan, all students will be able to be in the classroom five days a week.
Elementary school students returned to in-person learning four days a week in February. Families who do not feel comfortable returning their child to an in-person learning environment would be allowed to keep their child in a virtual setting with their currently assigned teachers, the school system advised in a social media post.
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Auburn: Auburn University is fully resuming on-campus operations that were disrupted by the coronavirus last year. All optional remote instruction ended Sunday, and most employees who have been working on a virtual basis will return to campus Monday, the Opelika-Auburn News reports. The decision to reopen was based on multiple factors, said Dr. Fred Kam, director of the university medical clinic. “You’re looking at all the data, all of the information and … you’re forecasting on where you think things will be,” Kam said. The university has seen a downward trend in COVID-19 since 113 cases were reported during the week ending Jan. 17. The university said 75 new virus cases were self-reported during the week ending Jan. 31, three fewer than the previous week. The school also reported a 0.9% positivity rate among tho