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Article: Number of students taking free school lunches is on the rise
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2009
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In last year's sour economy, Utah's schools served nearly 2
million more free student meals than the year before, through the
federally funded National School Lunch Program.
In 2007-08, roughly 16,738,159 free meals were served; last year,
there were 18,713,290, according to Charlene Allert, the assistant
director of the child nutrition program for the Utah State Office of
Education.
"So I would say that we increased by quite a bit last year, and
these are only preliminary numbers," Allert said.
More students coming into the schools might have been a factor in
the increase. But the number of "paid" lunches and reduced-priced
lunches stayed roughly the same as in the past few years. The ...