THANKS, CORPORAL Schools to offer free breakfast

By Rachel Wachman Record-Journal staff

REGIONAL Gov. Ned Lamont and state Education

Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker announced last week that Connecticut will offer free breakfast to all schoolchildren in Connecticut and make lunch free for students who previously qualified for reducedprice lunches. With this announcement, Connecticut became the seventh state to institute free school meals, with Massachusetts joining the ranks as number eight on Aug. 10.

To make the program possible, Connecticut allocated $16 million from funding the state received under the America Rescue Plan Act. During the pandemic, both breakfast and lunch were free for students in Connecticut thanks to federal funding, but this ended when the pandemic program expired.

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