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Should all school kids get free meals — regardless of income? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) selection as Vice President Harris’s running mate has brought that once-peripheral policy issue ...
School meals. One of Walz’s signature legislative achievements was supporting a bill that provides free school breakfasts and lunches to public and charter school students in Minnesota ...
The Walz record: Abortion rights, free lunches for schoolkids, and disputes over a riot response ... what Walz has done as governor and how it might connect to the campaign now that he's on the ...
Federal prosecutors charged 70 people with defrauding programs that funded meals for kids during the pandemic out of $250 million on Walz’s watch. The Office of the Legislative Auditor, a nonpartisan watchdog, delivered a scathing report in June that said the state Department of Education “failed to act on warning signs” and was “ill ...
Walz hugged by children after signing universal free school meals to law. After schools closed in 2020 due to COVID-19, Walz was cautious about reopening them, which aligned closely with the concerns of teachers, who were hesitant to return to in-person learning due to fear of contracting COVID-19. [193]
She attended Mankato West High School when Walz was a teacher there, and she was in the Gay-Straight Alliance when he was the faculty adviser. Since he became governor, she said, his policies have been “tremendous” for three of her children with disabilities. As a parent, she appreciated his program to provide free school meals for children.
Many states in the US have outlawed practices that single out students who have school lunch debt. [5] [4] Webster was part of the Legal Services Advocacy Project team that wrote the legislation, [8] signed by Governor Tim Walz in 2023, that made Minnesota the third state to offer free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. [9]
A former teacher, Walz has also supported funding for a program that provides free school meals to children. In 2023, Walz signed into law the North Star Promise Scholarship Program to provide ...