Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to tell principals to give lunch to all students, even those who can't pay
The city has instituted universal free lunch for middle schools, but declined to expand it citywide.
Councilman Ben Kallos (D-Manhattan) asked Fariña to also issue rules that school staffers could not go after parents to collect unpaid lunch fees later, but she declined to do that without studying it first.
“Students are not deprived of eating lunch because of money,” she said.
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