A Butler County school district says it’s seeing an increase in student lunch debt, as well as families struggling to pay that debt, since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Talawanda School District has a current debt of just over $58,000, according to our news partners, WCPO.
When asked how the debt got that high, the district’s director of communications and public engagement, Holli Hansel, highlighted that while the government made meals free during the pandemic, that funding “dried up.”
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Hansel also mentioned state funding and inflation as contributing factors to the debt…