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Policy committee reviews changes to school nutrition policy to address rising lunch debt
Summary
Staff proposed revisions to Policy 8-04 to remove a 2022 USDA parenthetical and to change meal-charge rules after the district reimbursed school nutrition roughly $300,000 this year; principals reportedly support the changes.
The Union County Public Schools policy committee on June 17 reviewed proposed revisions to Policy 8-04 (operation of school nutrition services) meant to curb growing school lunch debt and to remove a parenthetical definition tied to a 2022 USDA memo.
"That parenthetical was put in there after a 2022 USDA memo was introduced. That memo has been removed and is presumably rescinded, under the new administration," a staff member said, explaining why district policy would strike that parenthetical. Staff also proposed changes to the meal-charges section to respond to…
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