“Summer should be such an exciting time for kids,” said Sarah Steely, director of No Kid Hungry Virginia. “It should be a time of sunshine and playing outside with friends. But unfortunately, for thousands of Virginia kids, summer can also be the hungriest time of the year.”
In Charlottesville City Schools, free breakfasts and lunches are available to all K–12 students through a US Department of Agriculture option called the Community Eligibility Provision, which allows low-income school districts to provide no-cost meals to all of their students during the school year.
But when the school year ends, so do the school-provided meals…