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Meals Leaving Kids Hungry

WAITSBURG - School staff members and administrators are worried students are not getting enough food to fuel their brains because of new fed- eral nutritional guidelines enacted this school year.

Susan Wildey, the food services supervisor for the Waitsburg School District, said the amount of food offered for breakfast and lunch by the district's caf- eterias has been reduced this school year.

The change in nutritional guidelines for all school districts across the country is because of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The legisla- tion authorizes funding and sets policy for United St...

 

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