A Placer County middle school is set to receive nearly $13,000 to bolster its food-service program.
The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, which will get $12,974, is one of 52 districts statewide to receive the grant money, the state Department of Education stated.
The funding is part of more than $1 million in start-up and expansion grants for the School Breakfast and Summer Food Service programs.
The state Department of Education is authorized to offer up to $15,000 per site for the federal School Breakfast Program, which serves kindergarten through 12th-grade students, or the Summer Food Service Program, which serves children and teens 19 and under during school breaks, a department news release states.
The majority of the schools that received the grant funding were in Fresno and Los Angeles counties. Only one school in the Sacramento region, North Tahoe Middle School, will receive the grant funding.
"No child should ever come to school on an empty stomach, but it is a sad reality that more than half the children in California qualify for free and reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs," said Jack O'Connell, state superintendent of public instruction, in the news release.
Some school districts expanded their summer food programs by opening sites at local community-based nonprofit agencies, the release states.
Grant applicants were reviewed, scored on their budget proposals and given extra points for developing ways to encourage children to participate in meal programs.
Grant recipients must offer a breakfast or summer food program for three consecutive years.
Call The Bee's Niesha Lofing, (916) 321-1270.
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