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Franklin City Public Schools to pilot summer meal home deliveries and hybrid sites
Summary
The district will pilot home-delivered meal boxes and hybrid meal sites this summer to reach children who lose access to school meals, with Amazon handling logistics and Food for Good as vendor; the program has capacity for 800 boxes and 293 households had signed up by May 4:30 p.m.
Franklin City Public Schools will pilot two summer meal models this year: hybrid congregate sites that provide three-day take-home meal bags on Thursdays and a rural non-congregate home-delivery program that will ship 10–11 weekly boxes to families.
The district’s nutrition director, Mr. Evans, told the school board the program is designed “to meet families where they are” and to address the sharp drop in summer participation that leaves many children without regular access to meals. He said the division serves about 1,347…
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