HISD’s breakfast in “breakfast in the classroom” program has been restarted at four schools:
Four Houston schools will resume serving breakfast to students in their classrooms, more than a month after state regulators found evidence that poor meal-counting procedures may have led HISD to overbill the government’s free meals program for poor children.
Officials with the Texas Department of Agriculture are trying to determine whether the Houston Independent School District will have to repay any of the millions of federal dollars it receives annually through the state agency. Superintendent Abe Saavedra suspended the breakfast-in-the-classroom program at all 40 participating schools in February because of questions raised during the Agriculture Department’s review of HISD’s cafeterias, which are managed by Philadelphia-based Aramark.
At the time, Saavedra acknowledged the program lacked adequate counting procedures, and he told school administrators and cafeteria managers they would have to prove they had fixed the problems before they could serve students in classrooms again. So far, four schools — Rhoads, Stevenson, Frost and Field elementaries — have been approved to reinstate the program, and five more are in line.
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