School Nutrition Association calls for universal free meals for students ‘as an integral part of education’

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The School Nutrition Association wants to permanently extend the US Department of Agriculture’s decision late last fall to offer all public-school students free breakfast and lunch through the end of the 2020-21 academic year “as an integral part of the educational experience.”