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Schools will stop serving free lunch to all students -- a pandemic solution left out of a new federal spending package

  • Written by Marlene B. Schwartz, Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
imageAbout 30 million students eat school lunches daily.JGI/Jamie Grill/Tetra Images via Getty Images

Public schools have been serving all students free meals since the COVID-19 pandemic first disrupted K-12 education. In March 2022, Congress rejected calls to keep up the federal funding required to sustain that practice and left that money out of a US$1...

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