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Sheldon ISD child nutrition outlines menu, participation and nutrition-standard changes
Summary
The district's child nutrition department described menu changes, federal reimbursement rates, meal participation, plans to move toward more scratch cooking and new USDA nutrition standards, and asked the board to support increased staffing and equipment investment.
Sheldon ISD's child nutrition staff outlined program changes, participation rates and nutrition standards during a board meeting presentation, highlighting menu revisions, student meal eligibility, participation data and plans to expand scratch cooking across campuses.
Assistant Director Jenny Lacour and new district dietitian Richard Hutchison joined the presentation. Staff said the child-nutrition program is funded primarily through USDA programs (National School Breakfast and National School Lunch) and described typical state reimbursement rates: $2.37 per reimbursed breakfast and $4.43 per reimbursed lunch; they also stated the current state reimbursements for paid students in the district as 42'cents for lunch and 39'cents for breakfast. Child nutrition staff said breakfast is free for all students in the district and that commodity foods and grant funding supplement…
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