School Lunch

Elkhart Community Schools joins South Bend Community School Corp. in giving free meals to all students. South Bend will provide free meals for a fourth consecutive year.

The governor is expected to announce a plan to spend $160 million in the state budget to offer free school breakfast and lunch to all Michigan students.

COVID-era universal school lunches — where all kids were given free meals regardless of income, feeding an additional 10 million students nationwide — has ended.

A set of federal waivers have gotten free meals to students since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The waivers are set to expire June 30th, but school lunchrooms and some lawmakers want to extend them through next school year.

Federal lawmakers approved a spending plan this week that would not renew pandemic-related child nutrition waivers that gave schools flexibility in how they serve students meals, such as allowing grab-and-go meals and meal delivery.

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