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Board adopts 'Feeding every hungry child' resolution to limit meal-program shortfalls

Board of Education of the Unified School District of San Francisco · March 24, 2009
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Summary

After extensive public testimony and debate, the SFUSD board adopted a resolution aiming to ensure no child is denied a meal, reduce growing cash shortages in student nutrition, add site-level incentives and non-educational consequences, and use point-of-sale and outreach to raise meal-application return rates.

The San Francisco Unified School District board on March 24 adopted a resolution titled “Feeding every hungry child in SFUSD” that directs sites to improve meal-application return rates, reduce cash shortages in the student nutrition program and protect students from being denied a meal because of inability to pay.

The resolution instructs schools to work toward a high return rate for free- and reduced-price meal applications (the board discussed and moved toward a realistic district goal in…

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