Published: Jul. 15, 2024, 7:03 a.m.Six Alabama school districts, including Jefferson and Baldwin County, will offer free breakfast and lunch to all students for the first time since the pandemic.Scroll down to see the list of school districts offering universal free meals.
That’s about 415,000 children who had access to district-wide, free meals last school year. In total, just under 480,000 children had access to free meals through their schools. Baldwin County also will offer district-wide CEP for the first time next school year, along with Geneva City, St. Clair County, Calhoun County and Coffee County.
If your school doesn’t offer CEP, you can find out whether your child is eligible for free meals, and access a copy of the form,. A preliminary survey by the Alabama School Nutrition Association found that some schools that didn’t participate in the program had as high as $40,000 in meal debt last school year.
The Alabama State Department of Education won’t have a full count of next year’s participants until 2025. But some are already announcing plans to renew for the fall. Four school districts – Huntsville, Tuscaloosa County, Decatur and Florence – offer the program in some schools, but not all.
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