This has yet to make the news, so you are hearing it from me first. I am a School Foodservice Manager at a Hawaii high school and we were told by the DOE School Foodservices Branch that starting next week the Federal Goverment will be conducting audits at 40 random schools to make sure Hawaii is counting thier meals right. Because of this the feds are withholding 80% of funds to SFS to run the program. If 5 of the 40 schools fail the audit the State will not have any Fed funds for the school lunch program. Without these funds the schools will have to pay the cost of lunches. The schools cannot pass the cost on to the parents , so @ $3.00 a lunch a school serving 500 meals a day will have to pay about $1000 dollars a day for the rest of the year. This is major because only 5 schools can fail and the WHOLE State fails. This meaning the 200+ public schools ( including charters) will have to pay for the students to eat.
Opinions please....
BTW, in a MOCK audit conducted last week 8 schools failed.
Opinions please....
BTW, in a MOCK audit conducted last week 8 schools failed.
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