Dear Win-E-Mac District Parents & Students,
We at ISD #2609 are hard at work preparing for a safe return of your students to a new school year. As of yet, we are unsure what form of learning this will take. Most likely, we will all need to be nimble and ready to change as the year progresses. Our Food Service Department is also making preparations to serve your students high-quality meals in the safest manner possible. Here are a few items we know for sure with regard to meals at the Win-E-Mac Schools this year.
Unlike last spring and into the summer, we will no longer be operating under the SFSP (Summer Food Service Program). USDA has mandated that we return to operating under the NSLP (National School Lunch Program)/SBP (School Breakfast Program) programs. These are the food distribution programs we would normally follow during a school year. The greatest change for our families in moving from SFSP to NSLP/SBP is meals are no longer free for every student. Only those families who fill out the “application for educational benefits” form and are income-eligible, will receive free and/or reduced meals starting again this fall. We understand that many of our families continue to find themselves in precarious financial conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason, we strongly encourage everyone to fill out the application for educational benefits. The more qualified recipients of free and/or reduced meals, the more federal and state monies become available to our district in other areas as well as in our food service department.
Meal prices as are as follows: Full breakfast price HS -$2.10; Reduced breakfast price-$0.00
Full breakfast price EL -$1.75; Reduced breakfast price-$0.00
Full lunch HS price $3.05; Reduced lunch price-$0.00
Full lunch EL price $2.80; Reduced lunch price-$0.00
All kindergarten students eat breakfast for free in Minnesota!
To ensure all of our students have access to meals regardless of our instructional model, Win-E-Mac Schools will be offering meals for remote learners. (Families would insert here what your meal distribution plan would be, ie pick-up with site(s) or delivery). These meals will be charged in the same manner as in-school meals according to the pricing structure laid out above.
For planning purposes, (you have to individualize here as well – it could look like the following: please fill out the “remote meal survey” or call us to let us know if you are interested in meals for your student when we are in the distance learning model)
Thank you for your patience with this process. Providing high-quality meals in an effort to nourish your students so that they are ready to learn and grow whether they are learning in school or at home continues to be our highest priority.
Sincerely,
Cam Thompson
Food Service Supervisor