WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer students would receive free and reduced-price meals at school under legislation that Republicans pushed through a House committee Wednesday.
On a vote of 20-14, the Education and Workforce Committee backed the bill, which would scale back the number of schools in which all students receive free or reduced-price meals. The measure would allow a trial period of so-called block grants for school meals in three states — meaning those states would no longer receive unlimited federal dollars for students who qualify for the free and reduced-price lunches, and states wouldn’t have to follow most federal nutrition standards.
The legislation, which the full House will consider, would also roll back some healthier school nutrition rules championed by first lady Michelle Obama. Some schools say they are too restrictive and the healthier meals are not appetizing enough to students.
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5 comments:
If their family is already on Food Stamps or Welfare, they should NOT qualify for free or reduced price school meals - talk about double dipping!
It sounds like a good plan to me. We are already paying for their lunch through the food stamps welfare program.
10:18 The way it stands now, they automatically qualify if the household in which they reside receives a food entitlement.
If you can't feed your kids don't have em.
I did fine in school eating the PBJ and banana that Mom got out of bed and packed me in a brown bag--maybe a cookieortwo--no ned to be refrigerated, plenty of carbs and calories to get through the afternoon--please, let's not act as if kids get a "hot lunch plate" when they are home from school at lunchtime--and with the generous SNAP allowances, , packing a sandwich and piece of fruit should be do-able--everyone who pays for their own groceries knows that the only people in the grocery stores with full carts--often laden with sodas, chips, sweets--are the breeder-SNAPheads
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