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Colorado’s popular free school meals program faces a $50 million shortfall, jeopardizing local food grants

Lawmakers scramble to fill gap as districts worry about unfunded components that would cost more

Children each lunch at Swallows Charter ...
Children each lunch at Swallows Charter Academy in Pueblo West on Dec. 17, 2018. A new program to fund free school meals for all Colorado students is nearly $50 million short of budget projections. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post)
Nick Coltrain - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 5, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Colorado’s new voter-approved universal free school meals program is already tens of millions of dollars short, jeopardizing some of the auxiliary programs tied to the ballot measure as lawmakers scramble to keep the initiative solvent and meals paid for.

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