NC kids will eat free every day. Feds extend free school meals through June 2022.
T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 22—North Carolina public schools can continue serving free breakfasts and lunches to all students next school year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently extended the Child Nutrition Program waiver to allow the nation's public schools to serve free meals to all children through June 2022.
The Wake County school system emailed families on Thursday to let them know that breakfast and lunch will be available at no costs to students during the 2021-22 school year.
Historically, free school meals are only offered to low-income students. But when the coronavirus pandemic caused many schools to close for in-person instruction in spring 2020, the federal government opened the school meal program to all students.