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When Sophia Cuevas leaves for school at 7 a.m., like many students, she frequently runs out of time to eat breakfast or pack food.
“Usually I skip lunch if I’m on campus, because we had to pay for meals,” the 19-year-old West Valley College student said. “But now that there’s something that I can eat [for free] every day, I am no longer skipping lunch.”
Starting this fall, students enrolled in Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District are receiving one no-cost meal per school day. The new universal free meal program aims to lower barriers to higher education by addressing student food insecurity…