Unmet Basic Needs

From Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America's Students (US Dept. of Education, Office for Civil Rights)

Many of these students and their families also experience fewer resources at home, with parents or guardians earning lower pay for work that is disproportionately likely to require nonstandard schedules and unpredictable hours, resulting in higher-than-average levels of household poverty. (Page 6-7)

Meeting Nutritional Needs:

The TSC is offering free breakfast and lunch to all TSC students for the entire 2021-2022 school year with funding made possible through the federal government.

Per federal regulations, while one breakfast and one lunch per day are free for each student, second meals and a la carte items are not free and must be purchased. Payments are not being taken in the service line. To deposit funds into a student’s account, parents should visit the MySchoolBucks website.

Although every student is eligible to receive free meals this year without any further action, parents are encouraged to continue to apply for free and reduced meal eligibility because meal applications are linked to eligibility for free or reduced textbook fees as well as other important educational tools. If an application for the 2021-22 school year has already been completed, there is no need to reapply.

Information provided by Lori Shofroth Cords, TSC Director of Nutrition Services