Editors’ note: A version of this story first appeared on EdSource. Berkeleyside’s Vanessa Arredondo contributed additional reporting.
With the government shutdown over, school communities will grapple in the coming weeks with the upheaval and uncertainty the 43-day shutdown caused.
Students from preschool to college were affected by the loss of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal program that helps feed low-income families. In addition, schools were left without guidance for helping students with disabilities, homeless students, and children of migrant farmworkers after many U.S. Department of Education employees were laid off…