Hacker News Reader

The federal program reimburses local schools who are able to adapt to local circumstances. https://www.fns.usda.gov/disaster/pandemic/cn-2021-22-waiver... is a long list of associated waivers allowing local flexibility. What "unique needs" aren't being met here?

View on HN

Yes thank you I know that the federal government was reimbursing local schools during the pandemic. That's the entire point of this article.

However, education is at the state level, not the federal level. Individual states should fund their own school lunches as needed.

The need for school lunches is one lunch per child per day. Is there some more specific local need that the existing program is interfering with, like buying food from local producers or providing culturally appropriate meals? Or are you just stating support for some general libertarian position?

I'm stating a literal fact that education is funded locally and it always has been. Always as in the entire history of the United States.

According to the article, millions of kids who are getting free food from the schools won't be after June. So going forward the "local funding" for some kids will be out-of-pocket from lower-middle-income parents, and for other kids "local funding" will be going hungry. I don't think this is how things should be but if you disagree, all right.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com