VOORHEESVILLE — As students gear up for the new school year, free breakfast and lunch are both on the menu.
That’s because of the New York State Universal School Meals program, whose central tenet is that participating schools serve both breakfast and lunch to students at no cost.
All public school districts, charter schools, and private schools that participate in the federal National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program are required to “serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student,” per the program’s enacting legislation…