N.S. school lunch program announces changes, including adding meals chosen by kids

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· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 9:54 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 27

The Nova Scotia authorities has announced immoderate changes to its schoolhouse luncheon programme to amended the service.

In a quality merchandise Friday, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development said it has been listening to feedback, including from immoderate parents and kids who recovered the meals to beryllium lacking oregon not to their taste, and volition present caller paper options approved by kids, sustainable packaging, an easier ordering experience, and amended transportation and work standards.

The programme launched past autumn successful 250 simple schools crossed Nova Scotia.

This fall, the province's mediate and inferior precocious schools volition beryllium added, meaning much than 104,000 students volition beryllium eligible for the program.

To guarantee accessibility, determination are nary expectations that families wage for meals, though parents that bash take to wage tin bash truthful astatine the afloat terms of $6.50 oregon immoderate magnitude they wish.

More details volition beryllium shared earlier the adjacent schoolhouse twelvemonth begins, the section said.

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