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Weekends and in the summer, but limited resources mean we cannot provide a backpack to every kid who needs one. We also looked into mobile summer feeding programs but our Rural Communities are so small and far apart the time requirement of having a kid eat a full meal before going to the next location thats required is cost prohibitive. Waiving it to allow Program Models in hard to reach models will address these barriers and significantly expand the number of children we reach. Finally, the summer ebt demonstration demonstration projects provide another model. This model families of children ...

Sameea Kamal | CalMatters District employees prepare boxes filled with breakfast, lunch and snacks for Oakland Unified students at La Escuelita on June 7, 2021. Families can request or pick up one box per child enrolled in district schools. Photo Credit: Anne Wernikoff / CalMatters by ElObservador 06/11/2021 Early in the pandemic, the only source of milk for some struggling families was from school lunches, recalls Stacy Johnson, director of nutrition services at Glendora Unified School District. Even for families who weren’t as strained financially — or for f...

Legislators want to spend $650 million a year to continue a pandemic program for free meals for all California public school students. The proposal will be decided in budget talks this week.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing to make universal schools meals programs permanent.