School lunch will cost a nickel more for the 2011-12 school year after the Easton Area School Board moved to raise prices in accordance with the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act.
The 5-cent increase is mandated as part of an effort to ensure “reimbursement received for free or reduced-price meals is not offsetting the cost to produce the paid meal,” according to a lengthy and complicated seven-page memo issued by the state Department of Education on the subject of the "USDA Fact Sheet - Equity in School Lunches."
The memo, issued in March, attempts to clarify the responsibilities of lunch program sponsors and the requirements for reimbursement.
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The increase will raise the full school lunch price from $1.85 to $1.90 for grades K through 6. Grades 7 through 12 will pay $2.05, up from $2.