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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
IDEA Public Schools to offer free meals to children this summer
PERMIAN BASIN, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – IDEA Public Schools' Child Nutrition Program (CNP) is excited to announce they will be serving FREE meals during the summer to any child in the community aged 18 years and younger beginning Monday, June 2, whether they are an IDEA student or not. IDEA Travis will serve breakfast and lunch beginning Monday, June 2 through June 27th. IDEA Yukon will serve breakfast and lunch beginning Monday, June 2 through July 31. The offering is made possible through the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. According to Feeding America, nearly 1 in 5 children in the state of Texas face hunger. The free meals are part of IDEA's commitment to local communities to help promote a healthy and active lifestyle through the Seamless Summer Meals Option. For the children who rely on school meals during the academic year, these meals offer a source of good nutrition when school is out for the long summer vacation. 'We know nutrition is essential for all children in our community—not just during the school year, but throughout the summer as well,' said Fernando Aguilar, Vice President of the Child Nutrition Program at IDEA Public Schools. 'With nearly 1.7 million children in Texas at risk of hunger this summer, we're proud continue helping fill that gap by providing nutritious meals that ease the financial strain on families during the break.' The summer meals will include breakfast and lunch and must be consumed in the cafeteria of any IDEA campus Monday through Friday. Breakfast will be served from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Food service will be closed on federal holidays, June 20 and from June 30 through July 4. Families seeking more information regarding summer meals on campus may contact the cafeteria manager at any IDEA campus. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
No school, no problem: Utah's summer meal programs address student food insecurity
While many students look forward to the end of the school year and the start of summer break, roughly 17% of Utah children who suffer from food insecurity may worry more about where their food will come from without access to school lunch. To help children and families meet nutritional needs over the break, the Utah State Board of Education's Child Nutrition Program administers more than a dozen federal food programs working together to feed low-income children. Free meals will be available through these programs at over 300 locations combined at schools, libraries, parks and community centers this summer. The locations are spread across the state, with close to 30 locations in Salt Lake City, 18 in Ogden and 40 throughout Utah County. Several school districts will participate in the Utah Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option, which provide free meals to children 18 and younger and offer low-cost meals for adults. Children must be present to collect their meals and eat at the site, but some take-home items like fruit may be provided. Most meal sites will be closed on state holidays, including Juneteenth, Fourth of July and Pioneer Day. 'I think there is a great need,' said Sheldon Moore, field supervisor for the Child Nutrition Program. 'Most of the kids rely on our breakfast and lunch meals during (the) school year. When school is out, they still need to be fed ... so this program actually bridges the gap in the summer months to make sure that our kids are still fed.' Salt Lake City School District will provide free lunches at the Salt Lake City Public Library, local elementary schools and parks between June 4 and Aug. 9. Free breakfast will also be provided at participating schools when summer school is in session. Visit the Salt Lake City School District website for site-specific hours and schedules. Granite School District will provide free lunches at 14 locations in West Valley City, Magna, Kearns, Taylorsville and Salt Lake City on weekdays from June 9 to Aug.1. Adult meals at these locations will be $3.50 each. The school district also plans to host a summer meals kickoff celebration to provide free barbecue and games on June 10. Details on participating locations, schedules and menus are available on their website here. Davis School District will serve free lunches at 15 schools across the district on Mondays through Thursdays from June 2 to July 23. Lunch is available from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and adults eat for $4.25 per meal. The full list of participating locations is available here. Alpine School District will offer free lunch and breakfast for children at several schools this summer. Adults can join their children for breakfast for $3 or lunch for $5. The summer meal schedule for June, with locations and menu options, is available on the school district's Facebook page. Utah's child nutrition programs served 68,530 free summer meals in the Salt Lake City School District in 2024, according to Moore. 'That just shows you, just (in this) district, how many kids this program impacted. Then, if you throw in everybody else just around us, you can see how much this program is needed,' said Moore. A cumulative list of organizations participating in Utah summer meals and their operating dates can be found here. The board of education announced on Tuesday that the SUN Meals program will also be returning to Utah this summer to offer free meals and snacks. The federally funded program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides food to low-income children age 18 and under who qualify for reduced-price or free lunch at various locations in their communities. School meal programs reported nearly 200,000 students were determined eligible for free or reduced-priced school meals in 2024, according to reports from the Child Nutrition Program. Most locations are congregate meal sites, meaning students must be present to receive their meal — rather than have a parent pick it up — and must eat at the site. In rural communities where it may be more difficult to travel to a meal site, the program also offers meals at noncongregate sites for pickup and delivery through SUN Meals-to-go. SUN Meals programs are being offered in addition to the SUN Bucks or Summer EBT program, which provides $120 per child in households that receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Medicaid. Households with children receiving reduced or free lunch or already enrolled in these programs will be automatically enrolled in SUN Bucks. 'It's important for our Utah students to have access to healthy and nutritious meals, not only when they're in the classroom, but when they're out of the classroom, as well,' said Sharon Turner, director of public affairs for the Utah State Board of Education. 'So, the SUN bucks and SUN meals programs will provide different ways and methods where they can have access to that.' SUN Bucks funds are scheduled to be dispersed in June this year. For more information or to apply to the program, visit the Department of Workforce Services website here. A map of locations that offer SUN Meal services throughout the summer is available on the U.S. Department of Agriculture website. While information for the state is not on the website yet, it is updated every Friday, and Utah-specific updates will be added by the end of May and June, according to the Utah State Board of Education.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
LIST: Area school systems providing summer meals for children
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Multiple parishes and school systems in the area are taking part in summer feeding programs for children. Louisiana First News is providing a list of those participating entities below. Meals will be available at these locations for anyone 18 years old and younger between June 2, 2025, to June 26, 2025. Baker High School, 3200 Groom Road, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Also, tentatively at Park Ridge, 5905 Groom Road from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The East Baton Rouge Child Nutrition Program is offering free meals to anyone 18 years old and younger from May 27, 2025, to July 31, 2025, at various schools, libraries, and housing authorities. A list of locations and times when meals will be served can be found below. Summer-2025-School-Sites-HA-Libraries-Flyer-2Download The school system said all meals must be consumed on site. If you have any questions, call the EBR Schools Child Nutrition Program at 225-376-2376 or send an email to Cnpsummermeals@ Free breakfast and lunch will be available at Slaughter Elementary School and East Feliciana High School from May 27 through June 27. Anyone who is 18 years old or younger can receive the meals. The school system said to keep an eye out for meal service times on their social media accounts. Non-congregate meal boxes will also be available in July. The school system said each box will include seven breakfasts and seven lunches and can be picked up every Tuesday in July from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at East Feliciana High School. Registration is required ahead of time. East Feliciana Public Schools says each eligible child 18 and under may receive one meal box per week. Children do not have to be enrolled at a public school in the parish to take part in this program. Free breakfast and lunch will be available from June 2 to June 26 for kids and students in the parish, with the exception of June 19, which is Juneteenth. Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Lunch: 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Participants will have to eat the meals in the cafeteria. The school district said meals will be made available at the following schools between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., as well as 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Crescent Elementary Dorseyville Elementary East Iberville Iberville Elementary MSA East MSA West North Iberville Elementary North Iberville High School White Castle High School The school system said their summer feeding program runs from June 2 to June 26 and will be distributed at St. Helena College & Career Academy, 14340 LA-37 in Greensburg. Breakfast and lunch will be available Monday through Thursday between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. and 12 p.m. Free meal boxes will be available for any child 18 years old and younger on five different dates this summer. The boxes will be available at Port Allen High School, 3553 Rosedale Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on May 30, June 6, June 13, June 20, and June 27. The school system asks the families to fill out this online registration form. The school system said drive-thru distribution will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Children who are 18 years old and younger can receive the school district's free, non-perishable seven-day meal boxes. The boxes will be available first come, first served every Monday in June and July. They will be available between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at West Feliciana Middle School. The school system asked that parents sign up here before May 30. Louisiana SUN Bucks: How to apply, do you qualify and when they will go out House works overnight on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' Republicans advance bill with steep cuts to Medicaid as part of Trump agenda Transportation secretary says his agency is working to improve infrastructure at airports Noem says conditions could back suspension of habeas corpus Louisiana tax preparer arrested in casino winnings fraud scheme Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Maine sues Trump administration for funding freeze over policy on transgender student athletes
Maine's attorney general filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a federal judge to lift President Donald Trump's pause on education funding to the state. Keep up with the latest in + news and politics. The pause was announced last week by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins as part of Trump's Title IX interpretation disallowing transgender student-athletes to play sports aligned with their gender identity. The state claims the pause is withholding funds used to feed school children and disabled adults, contrary to promises from the USDA and Rollins. Related: Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding Attorney General Aaron M. Frey said the state's Child Nutrition Program of the Maine Department of Education was unable to access federal funds used to feed children and adults with disabilities and asked the court to grant a temporary restraining order releasing the federal funds. 'Without federal funds, state employees who administer school food programs will be laid off, food providers will not be able to purchase food or pay staff to prepare and serve food, and schools will not be reimbursed for meals they provide,' Frey said in a statement released yesterday. 'In short, children, as well as some vulnerable adults, will go hungry.' Frey was unsparing in the lawsuit, saying Rollins sounded 'more like a hostage taker seeking a ransom payment than a cabinet-level federal official." Rollins was equally confrontational in her letter to Gov. Janet Mills on announcing the pause. 'You cannot openly violate federal law against discrimination in education and expect federal funding to continue unabated,' Rollins wrote in her letter dated April 2. 'Your defiance of federal law has cost your state, which is bound by Title IX in educational programming. Today, I am freezing Maine's federal funds for certain administrative and technological functions in schools. This is only the beginning, though you are free to end it at any time by protecting women and girls in compliance with federal law.' Rollins also promised that the pause would 'not impact federal feeding programs or direct assistance to Mainers; if a child was fed today, they will be fed tomorrow.' The lawsuit came after news was announced on Friday that the U.S. Department of Education had launched a Title IX Special Investigative Team to investigate the state's transgender student-athlete policies. 'To all the entities that continue to allow men to compete in women's sports and use women's intimate facilities: there's a new sheriff in town,' Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a press release announcing the team on Friday. 'We will not allow you to get away with denying women's civil rights any longer.' Advocates decried the Trump pause and Rollins letter. 'This sounds like another incoherent and baseless plan with the potential to waste untold taxpayer resources to pursue an unhinged agenda of animus," a GLAAD spokesperson told The Advocate. "In Maine, no fewer than six federal agencies reportedly swarmed the state over two transgender students. This is so far out of whack with what states need to help every student and community succeed. Targeting a handful of athletes does nothing to protect women and girls, in fact, these bans endanger girls as they risk invasive genital exams and other expensive 'verification.' It makes no sense, and it is harmful. Every student and school is safer when the most vulnerable students are protected and respected.' Mills and Trump had a live televised confrontation over transgender student-athletes and the threat of losing federal funds at a National Governors Association meeting at the White House in February. 'Is Maine here, the governor of Maine here?' Trump asked the bipartisan gathering of governors. 'Are you not going to comply with it? 'I'm complying with state and federal laws,' Mills responded. 'Well—I'm— we are the federal law,' Trump replied 'You better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal—although I did very well there—your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise, you're not getting any federal funding.' 'We'll see you in court,' Mills responded. 'Good. I'll see you in court,' Trump said. 'That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.' The Trump administration has not commented publicly on the lawsuit.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Maine AG sues Trump administration for USDA funding freeze that hit school meals
Students getting their l lunch at a primary school in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Amanda Mills/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The Maine Attorney General is suing the Trump administration for freezing funds that help feed children in schools and childcare centers, as well as adults with disabilities in congregate settings. Attorney General Aaron Frey filed a complaint Monday with the U.S. District Court in Maine against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Secretary Brooke Rollins for their decision to withhold funding because of the state's alleged violation of Title IX in educational programming. Title IX does not reference trangender people directly, but the Trump administration has interpreted Maine's policy allowing trans students to compete in athletics that align with the gender identity as discrimination against cisgender girls. 'Under the banner of keeping children safe, the Trump administration is illegally withholding grant funds that go to keeping children fed,' Frey said in a Monday news release. In a letter sent to Gov. Janet Mills last Wednesday, Rollins that said she was freezing 'Maine's federal funds for certain administrative and technological functions in schools' and warned it was 'only the beginning.' While the letter said the freeze would not affect programs that provide food to children, according to the complaint, the Child Nutrition Program of the Maine Department of Education was unable to access several sources of federal funding the following day. USDA pausing funding to Maine school programs over alleged Title IX violations 'This is just another example where no law or consequence appears to restrain the administration as it seeks capitulation to its lawlessness,' Frey said. 'The President and his cabinet secretaries do not make the law and they are not above the law, and this action is necessary to remind the President that Maine will not be bullied into violating the law.' In the complaint, Frey argues that the freeze is unlawful because it did not follow the legally required procedure to alter congressionally appropriated funds, including a regulation from the USDA to hold a hearing and issue a formal decision on the record before terminating funds. Frey is also asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent the USDA from withholding funds while the court hears the matter. The funding freeze was among a barrage of actions targeting Maine following President Donald Trump and Mills' heated exchange over the state's protections for transgender student athletes. Both the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services determined Maine's polices allowing transgender girls to compete in girls' sports, which is supported by the Maine Human Rights Act, violate federal protections against sex-based discrimination in schools. The U.S. DOE gave Maine a deadline of April 11 to propose an agreement that's acceptable to the office or said the case will be referred to the Department of Justice. Frey's complaint marks the first official legal action in the dispute. However, the complaint specifically notes that it is asking the court to rule on the legality of the freeze rather than to interpret Title IX, though that question will likely come before the courts soon. 'Even if the State of Maine were in violation of Title IX (and, to be clear, it is not), there are statutory and regulatory requirements that the federal government must comply with before it may freeze federal funds owed to a state,' he wrote. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
