CCSD extends free meals for all students through 2025

The Clark County School District announced Tuesday it volition connection escaped meals to each students done the 2024-25 schoolhouse year.

The offering is done the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Community Eligibility Provision, which serves schools and schoolhouse districts with a precocious poorness rate.

Previously, much than 290 Clark County School District campuses participated. Now, the enlargement volition see each students and parents don’t person to capable retired an application.

“Access to nutritious meals is captious to pupil occurrence successful the classroom,” Superintendent Jesus Jara said successful a quality release. “Providing escaped meals to each students districtwide is different measurement toward ensuring equity truthful that students tin absorption connected learning and not wherever their adjacent repast volition travel from.”

The district, which has much than 304,000 students, already is providing escaped meals each students this schoolhouse twelvemonth done a national waiver.

As of June 30, astir 75 percent of the district’s students qualified for escaped oregon reduced-price schoolhouse meals — up much than 6 percent since the opening of the COVID-19 pandemic, the territory said.

The schoolhouse district’s announcement Tuesday coincides with National School Lunch Week. The schoolhouse territory plans to supply much than a cardinal schoolhouse meals to students this week, according to the release.

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