Schools may be faced with another test: the end of federal waivers that have kept meal costs down and made it easier to serve students food during the pandemic.
. The lawmakers saw the waivers as a temporary fix that was no longer needed.
“Schools want to be investing more in students for addressing learning loss, and all sorts of other needs,” said Carolyn Vega, the associate policy director at Share Our Strength, a nonprofit that works to address child hunger. “So it would be really terrible for them to also have to try to use that money for school meals when there was another way that we could help offset those higher costs.”
And advocates worry the end of the waivers will make it harder to serve food to children over the summer, which is usually a difficult time to reach families. Uncertainty about the extension of the waivers, FitzSimons said, has complicated efforts to hire summer staff, choose locations, and decide how many meals to serve.
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