{"id":168376,"date":"2023-07-28T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T08:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=168376"},"modified":"2023-07-28T03:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T08:43:21","slug":"van-wert-announces-free-lunch-policy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/07\/28\/van-wert-announces-free-lunch-policy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert announces free lunch policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert City Schools has announced the district\u2019s 2023-2024 free and reduced price meals policy for students unable to pay the full price of meals served under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program. Each school office and the central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/VWCS_circle_full-color_WHITE-BACKGROUND.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152087\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Application forms are available on the district\u2019s website or in each school building\u2019s main office. Completed applications must be turned in to the Superintendent\u2019s Office at 205 W. Crawford St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foster children are eligible for free meal benefits regardless of the household\u2019s income. If a family has foster children living with them and wishes to apply for such meals for them, contact the school for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Households will be notified of the approval or denial of benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Households may apply for benefits any time during the school year. If a household is not currently eligible and if the household size increases or income decreases because of unemployment or other reasons, the family should contact the school to file a new application. Such changes may make the children of the family eligible for free or reduced-price benefits if the family income falls at or below the levels shown above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Van Wert City Schools has announced the district\u2019s 2023-2024 free and reduced price meals policy for students unable to pay the full price of meals served under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program. Each school office and the central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:58:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168400,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168376\/revisions\/168400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}