For families with lower incomes who can’t afford to load large sums in one go, processing fees can arrive weekly or even more frequently, increasing costs disproportionately.

NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that students eligible for free or reduced price school meals cannot be charged processing fees beginning in 2027. School districts ...

Oklahoma parents are paying hundreds in extra fees for school lunches Oklahoma Watch surveyed two dozen districts and found fees ranging from $2.25 to $3.25 per transaction.

Families on reduced-price lunches, earning less than $32,000 per year, pay as much as 60 cents in fees for every $1 spent on lunch, regulators found.

It’s a discussion that has been happening for months — Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) cell phone-free policy has a new change. For the 2024-25 school year, all students were not ...

Advocates say free school lunch would produce healthier, more engaged students — plus would save kids from stigma, and parents from debt.

At the June 24th School Board meeting, much discussion took place regarding the division’s cell phone policy—particularly the use of phones during lunch periods in high schools.

The Concord School District is facing more than $100,000 in school lunch debt. The school board said the lunch debt must be paid off by early July.

Climate Solutions Plastic bag fees and bans help protect beaches and riverbanks, study finds But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and ...