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District 196 Approves Lunch Price Hike
Mandates in the federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act will require schools to provide more specific categories of food and work toward price equity for all students' meals, resulting in a need for increased lunch prices.
The District 196 School Board last week approved a 10-cent lunch price increase for elementary and high school students, as well as for adults, by a 6-0 vote.
The increase brings lunch prices for 2012-13 to $2.20 for elementary, $2.35 for high school and $3.40 for adults. Middle school pricing will stay at $2.25.
The price increase was necessary, district officials said, because of mandates from the federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that focus on nutrition and something called price equity, an effort to have all students contributing the same amount of money to their school-provided meals.
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If the board had voted against the measure, the district would have lost about about $3.6 million in federal funding for its meal programs—almost 33 percent of its meal-program funding, district Finance and Operations Director Jeff Solomon said at the meeting.
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Board member Rob Duchscher was not present at the May 14 meeting.
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