(Atlantic) At Wednesday’s Atlantic School Board meeting, School Superintendent Steve Barber reported the Federal Government’s free breakfast and lunch program is going away.
Barber says the decision is being appealed, but the policy will go away starting at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.
The program’s focus was to reduce the financial burden on families during the COVID pandemic. Barber says this will be a change for all of the district families, and with everyone receiving free breakfast and lunches over time, some families have not taken the time to fill out the free and reduced application.
The district is informing all district families of this change that will be coming and the importance of filling out the paperwork to see if they qualify for free and reduced lunch.
