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Parent warns USDA guidance could cost school lunches; board members discuss informing parents and possible support for AG litigation
Summary
A public commenter told the board that a June USDA/FNS notice would withhold National School Lunch Program funds unless local agencies adopt a broadened Title IX interpretation; the commenter urged the district to publicly oppose the guidance, inform parents, and pass a resolution to pause compliance pending state legal action.
A Terrebonne Parish resident urged the school board July 5 to oppose recent federal guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and to inform parents after warning that the agency’s interpretation of Title IX could tie lunch funding to new rules on restroom and locker‑room access.
Vicky Cloutier Schreiber told the board that in June FNS had issued guidance she described as requiring a “pro‑transgender interpretation of Title IX” and said the guidance could lead to withholding National School Lunch Program funds from…
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