Lunch debt
automatic News for 08-16-2019
Chobani pays lunch debt School lunch debt: Kids with lunch debt could wind up in foster care, schools tell parents The terse letter arrived in the mailboxes of about 40 families in Northeastern Pennsylvania this month. It came from the local public school district, but it bore a menacing message: Pay your child’s lunch debt or …
automatic News for 08-15-2019
Orange County fifth-grader pays off friends lunch debt, gets surprise in return Two Rhode Island districts turn to collection agencies to collect school lunch debts Public outcry over lunch shaming prompted the Chobani yogurt company to donate more than $47,000 to cover Warwick school meals, and the district revised its policy. Nationwide, 75 percent of school …
automatic News for 08-14-2019
Looking at school lunch debt in a bigger picture School lunch debt, a dress code for parents, HBCUs: What Education Lab is reading this week The Marvel cinematic universe is great, but the education universe has more going on. The newsletter also includes opportunities for readers to join the conversation. School lunch debt is a problem for …
automatic News for 08-13-2019
Deer Valley dad to pay of students’ lunch debt Sisters sell lemonade to pay off school district’s $41K lunch debt Two young sisters are turning lemons into lemonade, literally, to pay off their local school district’s $41,000 lunch debt. On May 20, Hailey and Hannah Hager submitted their first check of $460 from their lemonade stand …
automatic News for 08-12-2019
Seattle Dads Working To Erase School Lunch Debt Students are being shamed and punished over lunch debt, and it may take legislation to stop it According to a 2018 study by the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, school officials have employed a range of tactics, including barring students from graduation exercises and hiring collection agencies to …
automatic News for 08-11-2019
School lunch debt fundraiser being held in Isle of Wight School lunch debt policy draws public outcry By ETHAN HARTLEY. A school policy intended to help the district collect $77,000 in owed lunch debt has caused outrage and confusion on social media from parents in Warwick who are concerned that the policy shames children whose families …
automatic News for 08-10-2019
Efforts launched to pay school lunch debt in Claremont Lunch debt continues to rise in valley schools ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. – Students may be out of school for the summer, but they left some valley school districts with more student lunch debt. Rockingham County Public School officials said after this year, their student lunch debt has …
automatic News for 07-21-2019
Community helps pay off Pickens Co. lunch debt while students create box to fight hunger Chobani to pay off $85,000 in lunch debt for Idaho school district Twin Falls, Idaho – Yogurt company Chobani has offered to pay off $85,000 in student lunch debt at an Idaho school district. The Twin Falls School District announced Tuesday …
automatic News for 07-11-2019
Local Radio Station Helps Pay Robbinsdale School Lunch Debt One tray at a time, a Seattle dad helps erase school lunch debt around the state Six-year-old Amiah Van Hill first heard about Lew in May. That’s when her mother, Rachel, read her a news story about Lew’s GoFundMe campaign. Amiah wanted to help, so she called her …