Existing law requires each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, as specified, and authorizes a school district or county office of education to use funds available through any federal or state program for those purposes.
This bill, commencing with the 2021–22 school year, would require the State Department of Education to reimburse local educational agencies for their nonreimbursed expenses in providing United States Department of Agriculture reimbursable meals to pupils, as specified. The bill would define “local educational agency” to include school districts and county offices of education. The bill would authorize the department to develop
and adopt regulations as it deems necessary to implement these provisions.