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During the pandemic, the federal government offered free school meals for all students. But now, many schools have returned to their paid meal model, making it tough on families who benefitted from the assistance.

An effort is moving forward to make sure kids don’t go hungry. Lawmakers are considering making school meals free to all students for good. Right now, the program is set to run out at the end of the school year. “I think it’s a good idea. I think all kids should eat for free,” said Key Barnett of Hartford....

“It’s 2023 in the United States of America, people get lunch breaks,” said Leslie Blatteau, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers AFT Union 933. It comes among the strong reaction from state educators who say an effort to repeal their protected 30-minute lunch break is harmful to teachers and students. “I think it’s a distraction from the real…

A Tolland lawmakers says an amendment to a bill that became law last year mandating a 30-minute lunch break for teachers never went through the proper legislative process, and she wants it repealed.

For the first time in more than two years, some Connecticut parents will have to start paying for their children to eat in school. State funding that allowed schools to continue offering meals at no cost to students is now, as expected, beginning to run out. There are kids who are going to go hungry and there are families who…