PVUSD increases the price of school lunch
Reported by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) nutrition program, the requirement of paid lunch equity has risen, which means so will the price of school lunch.
Discussing this issue with Superintendent Charles Bush of the Palo Verde Unified School District, he said that due to this increase, students and parents can expect to see an increase in lunch prices effective for the 2017-18 school year.
Approving this policy at the board meeting held on April 4, The Board of Trustees’ plan to bring secondary and elementary lunch prices up were proposed in this manner: secondary prices for SY 17-18 $3.00, elementary prices for SY 17-18 $2.50 and elementary prices for SY 18-19 $2.90.
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However, at this present time, the Palo Verde Unified Nutrition Services weighted average price is just $2.34.
Therefore, to remain compliant with PLE’s policy, a .56 cent increase was required.
Bush said, “if you can show you’re moving your prices up and that you’re going to get to that level of reimbursement fairly quickly within a couple of years, then it could be just a little bit low, for a little bit of time, but now we have to charge that much to reach that level of $2.86, assuming that the rate of reimbursement doesn’t increase on the federal level.”
However, the impact of the prices going up again could potentially result in even more students bringing their lunches.
As of right now, Bush said there’s only about 65 students at each elementary school who pay full price for their lunch.
“Most kids, honestly who don’t get free or reduced lunch bring their lunch and high school students with good behavior and a certain GPA are allowed an off campus pass, so they’re free to get lunch,” Bush said.
Although faced a win-lose situation, schools will continue to have free
Reported by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) nutrition program, the requirement of paid lunch equity has risen, which means so will the price of school lunch.
Discussing this issue with Superintendent Charles Bush of the Palo Verde Unified School District, he said that due to this increase, students and parents can expect to see an increase in lunch prices effective for the 2017-18 school year.
Approving this policy at the board meeting held on April 4, The Board of Trustees’ plan to bring secondary and elementary lunch prices up were proposed in this manner: secondary prices for SY 17-18 $3.00, elementary prices for SY 17-18 $2.50 and elementary prices for SY 18-19 $2.90.
“There’s a rule in the school lunch …show more content…
However, at this present time, the Palo Verde Unified Nutrition Services weighted average price is just $2.34.
Therefore, to remain compliant with PLE’s policy, a .56 cent increase was required.
Bush said, “if you can show you’re moving your prices up and that you’re going to get to that level of reimbursement fairly quickly within a couple of years, then it could be just a little bit low, for a little bit of time, but now we have to charge that much to reach that level of $2.86, assuming that the rate of reimbursement doesn’t increase on the federal level.”
However, the impact of the prices going up again could potentially result in even more students bringing their lunches.
As of right now, Bush said there’s only about 65 students at each elementary school who pay full price for their lunch.
“Most kids, honestly who don’t get free or reduced lunch bring their lunch and high school students with good behavior and a certain GPA are allowed an off campus pass, so they’re free to get lunch,” Bush said.
Although faced a win-lose situation, schools will continue to have free