The School Nutrition Association of Wisconsin is calling on the Wisconsin Legislature to return to Madison and use part of its budget surplus to fully fund Gov. Tony Evers’ Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids program.
According to the association, the governor’s proposal would ensure that, along with existing federal funds, Wisconsin schools would receive enough meal funding to reimburse K-12 public schools at the “free meal” reimbursement rate for each student meal served.
Eventually, the initiative would require school breakfasts and lunches to be provided without charge.
According to Feeding America, one of the largest domestic hunger-relief and food rescue organizations in the nation, approximately one-third of schoolchildren in Wisconsin live in food-insecure families that do not meet federal income thresholds for school meal programs.
