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Dare County school board removes meal-account cap, asks commissioners to fund universal meals pilot
Summary
The Dare County Board of Education voted Sept. 26 to remove language capping meal-account charges in policy 62-20 and authorized the chair and superintendent to ask county commissioners for funding to pilot a universal free-meals plan; the request passed 6–1.
The Dare County Board of Education voted Thursday to strip a dollar-cap reference from policy 62-20 and to seek county funding for a pilot universal (free) school meals program.
At a special meeting at the Dare County Administrative Building in Manteo, the board moved to remove red-line language that would have limited students from accruing charges once a negative meal-account balance reached $10. A board member said the change removes any cap and leaves collection and account-management procedures to be addressed separately. “We're not going to withhold any lunches because of [a negative balance],” the board member said during discussion.
District staff and board members then discussed whether to pursue the federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) or a universal free-meals option. Kalita Govan, identified in the meeting as district staff responsible for meal-program data, explained that…
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