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Free summer feeding programs throughout the Chattahoochee Valley
COLUMBUS, Ga. () — During summer vacation, many students, whose main source of food is school lunches, go hungry. This is a continuous list of summer feeding programs in the Chattahoochee Valley. Harris County School District – The Harris County School District will participate in a school nutrition program with two feeding locations in Hamilton, Georgia. Meals are available at no cost to any child ages 18 and under. Marion County Schools – Summer meals will available at no cost to children 18 and under. Meals will be available at Marion County Middle School in Buena Vista Monday thru Thursday. Muscogee County School District – The Muscogee County School Nutrition Program will be participating in the Seamless Summer Option which allows districts to provide free meals to students during the summer to children under 18. Stewart County School District – Stewart County Schools will offer summer meals at no cost to children 18 and under. Meals will be distributed Monday thru Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Stewart County Educational Complex in Lumpkin, Georgia. Sumter County Schools – Sumter County Schools will offer summer meals for youth ages 18 and under. One breakfast and lunch per child will be offered per day. Sumter County will offer several meal locations via their school bus delivery. Talbot County Public Schools – Talbot County Public Schools will provide summer meal pick-up for students and non-school-aged children once a week, from June 16th through August 11, 2025. The meal packets will contain a week's worth of breakfast and lunch. Adults may pick up meals for children under their care. Adults must register their children using this link by June 10. In addition to this, Easton Middle School will be an open site for meals from June 16, 2025 through August 7, 2025. Any person 18 or under can come in and get breakfast from 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m., and lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday each week, with the exception of June 19 and July 3. Troup County School System – Free summer meals will be distributed to children aged 18 or younger; children do not need to be school-age or attend Troup County Schools. People can call 706-883-1588 to register for seven days of breakfasts and lunches with meal pickups in LaGrange, Hogansville and West Point. Lee County Schools – Lee County Schools are offering free summer meals for any child 18 or younger who is hungry or food insecure, regardless of where they live or go to school. As part of Alabama's 'Break for a Plate' initiative, breakfast and lunch will be provided at no cost throughout the month of June. Russell County School District – The Russell County School District Child Nutrition Program will operate May 27 thru June 26, Monday thru Thursday. All meals are available to all children under 18 at no cost and must be consumed on site. Locations include Dixie Elementary, Mt. Olive Primary, Russell County Middle and Russell County High. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has provided an additional 'Summer Meals for Kids Site Finder' that is updated every Friday throughout the summer. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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‘We can't hide kids:' Sumter County superintendent promises change after student records scandal
Sumter County Schools Superintendent Logan Brown greeted reporters at the door first thing Monday morning and made no secret of his reasoning to call a rare press conference at the small district: a need to show change was coming as he focused on rebuilding trust. 'We can't hide kids,' he said. 'We have to educate them to the highest standard, and that's exactly what we're going to do going forward.' Less than a year into his tenure, Brown accepted responsibility and blame for a scheme made public by a 53-page report released by the Florida Department of Education last week that said for six years, the district falsified student records in order to boost its ratings and funding. The plan centered around a program named SOAR. According to the report, the district moved approximately 200 low-performing students out of classrooms in their zoned school and into virtual classes. The investigation found that in some cases, the district never notified parents. Brown said several staff had been terminated and the administrators involved had left before he took over. He said the district would not have to give any money back. 'This is something that happened in the past, and we want to go forward and focus on the great things that we're doing,' he said. 'The only thing that I can commit to you as the leader of the school district now is that this will never happen again.' Online and in-person Monday, residents celebrated the notes of transparency the district was sounding. Mistrust has run deep in some corners of the county, and the response suggested Brown was moving the district in the right direction. Ironically, three of the four schools involved increased their ratings after SOAR ended and students returned to their normal classrooms. Two of the schools are now A-rated. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
