After gaining attention from a recent GoFundMe campaign, City Schools of Decatur announced on Thursday that $88,000 in lunch debt has been wiped from students’ accounts through a corporate foundation grant.
The issue of student lunch debt in the city came to the attention of local parent Jasmine Crowe-Houston after seeing a tweet from the Dekalb-based online publication Decaturish, which originally reported on the issue.
The report noted that due to updated meal charge procedures starting Feb 1., students who missed a maximum of three payments would be served an alternative meal option — a cheese sandwich and milk — rather than the more nutritional food options offered to their peers.
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