Wash. district wants to provide students with 3 free meals daily

The Tukwila School District is seeking federal grant money to provide free breakfast, lunch and dinner to all students, even if they do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals, reports the Tukwila Reporter.

Craig Huckins, foodservice director at the Tukwila, Wash.-based district says the area has a high poverty rate and, for many children, school is their only source to get food. Around 350 students eat an after-school dinner, a cost the district covers for students, with that number expected to grow. 

“If we weren’t giving them breakfast, lunch and supper, a lot of these kids would be eating a bag of chips for dinner,” Huckins told the website. “And that would [be] all they would have all day long sometimes.”

Read the full story at the Tukwila Reporter.