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California to Become First State to Provide Free Meals for All Students

In the coming school year, the Universal Meals program will ensure children may eat for free while they are on their school’s campus, ABC 7 reported Thursday.

“The program is a part of Assembly Bill 130 signed into law by Governor Newsom last July,” the outlet said.

California’s Universal Meals Program will build on the federal National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP), the state’s Department of Education website reads:

There are three key pillars that have been established to ensure that the program is a success:

Pillar One: California’s State Meal Mandate is expanded to include both a nutritiously adequate breakfast and lunch for, not just needy children, but all children each school day.
Pillar Two: High poverty schools will be required to participate in a federal provision.
Pillar Three: The California State Legislature allocates funds to provide additional state meal reimbursement to cover the cost of the Universal Meals Program.

However, President Joe Biden’s administration has tied federal school lunch funding to compliance with gender identity ideology, Breitbart News reported in June.