More Alabama schools, tired of hounding parents for meal money and racking up thousands of dollars in unpaid debt, will offer free lunch and breakfast next year.
Meals were free to every student in every school from 2020 to 2022 because of the pandemic. But when schools began charging again in 2022-23, many families didn’t know they would have to pay for meals or didn’t file the required forms for free and reduced price meals.
