Broward County Public Schools to end free lunch program for 2025-26 school year

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Broward County Public Schools students volition not person escaped luncheon for the 2025-26 schoolhouse year.

According to a media release, families volition request to use to find their eligibility for escaped and reduced-price lunches. Due to changes successful programme backing that allowed BCPS to connection escaped lunches for each students implicit the past 2 years, the territory volition modulation backmost to the exertion process antecedently successful place.

Starting successful the 2025/26 schoolhouse year, escaped and reduced-price lunches volition beryllium offered based connected eligibility, requiring families to implicit an application.

Students who person Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) oregon Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits oregon enrolled successful Head Start, Foster, Homeless, oregon Migrant are automatically certified to person escaped lunch.

For students eligible for reduced-price lunches, meals are offered astatine $0.40 per meal.

According to the district, luncheon prices are expanding by $1 for paying students crossed each people levels. Lunch volition outgo $3 successful simple school, $3.35 successful mediate schoolhouse and $3.50 successful precocious school.

The BCPS Food and Nutrition Services Department volition statesman accepting Meal Benefits Applications for the 2025/26 schoolhouse twelvemonth connected Monday, July 14, 2025, astatine www.myschoolapps.com.

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