All Students In The Sioux Falls School District Will Receive Meals At No Cost

Sioux Falls SD

05 October, 2020

4:35 PM

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From the Sioux Falls School District: October 5, 2020 The Sioux Falls Public Schools has been accepted into a program by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that allows ALL students in the District to receive meals at no cost to them. Both breakfast and lunch will be provided free with no income guidelines. This program is retroactively in effect from September 1, 2020, and carries through December 31, 2020, or until the funding runs out. Any meal purchased since the beginning of September will be credited back and funds placed in the student account for future use. Only breakfast and lunch meals are free. Any second milk, a second meal, or a la carte items will NOT be free. Students must have funds in accounts to purchase these items. The USDA Summer Seamless Program was initiated and now extended, as a result of the CARES Act, which supports families during the COVID-19 pandemic. All students Pre-K (Early Childhood) to 12th grade will receive free meals. We encourage all families to continue to submit free and reduced meal applications because these will be approved and in place when the funding ends. My School Bucks, the online meal payment system for SFSD, will be disabled on October 7, 2020, until the free meal program ends. This press release was produced by the Sioux Falls School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.