School meals

Students at schools in Lee, Sarasota, Hendry, Glades, and DeSoto will have a chance to eat school breakfast and lunch at no cost thanks to their district's participating in the Community Eligibility Provision.

Lee, Hendry, Glades and DeSoto schools offer students free breakfast, lunch via USDA program

WGCU Staff

Breakfast and lunch again will be served at no cost to students in all schools in Lee, Hendry, Glades, and DeSoto county schools.

The Glades County School District will get a $100+K grant, part of nearly $30 million in subgrants to 264 school districts across 44 states and the District of Columbia — some of the nation’s highest need schools — that were awarded via a cooperative agreement to develop and implement the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, Action for Healthy Kids. The funds are targeted to help schools develop healthier meals for students.

Education

Glades schools awarded $100K to focus on healthier student meals; one of two Florida sites selected

WGCU Staff

The Glades County School District will receive a $100,473 grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, one of only two such grants awarded in Florida.

A lunch tray consisting of pasta with fresh broccoli and slices of bread, and seasonal fresh fruit is set out at a primary school in London during a lunch break on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The drink options are milk and water. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Free Breakfast and Lunch for SWFL Schoolkids

Cary Barbor

SWFL parents won't have to worry about their kids being well fed at school this year.

Education

Lee School District Opens Food Distribution Sites

John Davis

The Lee County School District is starting to offer meal pick-up services for students while schools remain closed during the COVID-19 outbreak. The…