The Tukwila School District is seeking federal grant money to provide free breakfast, lunch and dinner to all students, even if they do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals, reports the Tukwila Reporter.
Craig Huckins, foodservice director at the Tukwila, Wash.-based district says the area has a high poverty rate and, for many children, school is their only source to get food. Around 350 students eat an after-school dinner, a cost the district covers for students, with that number expected to grow.
“If we weren’t giving them breakfast, lunch and supper, a lot of these kids would be eating a bag of chips for dinner,” Huckins told the website. “And that would [be] all they would have all day long sometimes.”
Read the full story at the Tukwila Reporter.