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Schools Offer Free Meals Like Soup Kitchens, but Without Federal Aid

April 20, 2020April 21, 2020 - by Kio Herrera

Some cafeterias have taken on the role of community soup kitchens, even though the federal school meals program won’t reimburse districts for all the meals. [The New York Times]

Inside the Nation’s First Vegetarian Public School

May 1, 2014May 13, 2014 - by Annette Konoske-Graf

Thursday is always vegetarian, and sometimes vegan, in the cafeteria at Public School 244 in Queens, the nation’s first non-charter public school to serve only vegetarian meals.