Austin ISD serves about 80,000 meals a day, including about 700 to students who are far enough behind in paying for their lunches that they receive a courtesy meal that the district absorbs into its operating costs. Ralph Barrera/AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Students who cant pay for their lunch has always been an issue, but its on Americans minds as school funding and other assistance programs are cut. In the Austin school district alone, the nutrition and food services department serves 80,000 meals per day, including about 700 meals that the students receiving them cant pay for.
hose courtesy meals, as they are known, cost the school $350,000 each year. In late 2016, AISD opened a crowdfunding campaign that wen…
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