Federal free lunches end, schools navigate next steps

For the past two years, all students, regardless of their family’s income, received free school lunch, thanks to a pandemic-era waiver.

That waiver expired on July 1, and now local districts are left to navigate pricing.

“There’s going to be some parents that now have to find money to buy their kid’s lunches,” Douglas Dyke with the Bald Eagle Area School District said.

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