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Something we’ve never done’: Florida schools drain reserves to feed kids at home POLITICO 1/14/2021 By Andrew Atterbury © Jae C. Hong/AP Photo Students stand socially distanced in a hallway during a lunch break. TALLAHASSEE A pandemic-driven budget shortfall across Florida school districts is threatening local meals programs, a core function whose funding is fanning a bitter political feud over how to direct precious money. Students are eating significantly fewer school meals across the 2020-21 academic year amid the monthslong public health crisis but districts are collectively seeing a financial hole as deep as $370 million, according to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried. Food service costs are higher this year in part because schools are sending thousands of meals home with students who are learning remotely. Schools changed how they serve meals so they could reach more students, especially with scores yet to return to their campuses

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