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Oswego District 308 students to pay more for meals · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Aswego District three hundred and eight students to pay more
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  Speaker 1: for meals. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: Oswego's School District three hundred and eight families will pay
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  Speaker 1: slightly more for school meals when the new school year
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  Speaker 1: starts in August. Oswego District three hundred eight school board
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  Speaker 1: voted July thirteenth to approve the increase. For elementary school students,
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  Speaker 1: the cost of a school breakfast will increase to one
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  Speaker 1: dollars and seventy five cents, up from one dollars and
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  Speaker 1: sixty cents. They will pay three dollars and fifty cents
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  Speaker 1: for a student lunch, up from three dollars and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five cents. Junior High Halgh School students will see their
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  Speaker 1: student breakfast increase to two dollars in the new school year,
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  Speaker 1: up from one dollars and eighty five cents. In addition,
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  Speaker 1: they will see the cost of a student lunch increased
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  Speaker 1: to three dollars and ninety cents, up from three dollars
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  Speaker 1: and sixty five cents. District three hundred and eight students
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  Speaker 1: will return to school on August twentieth. Current pricing remains
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  Speaker 1: significantly below the USDA recommended benchmark of four dollars and
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  Speaker 1: sixteen cents, District three hundred and eight Finance Director Amanda
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  Speaker 1: Star had said during the June eighth school board meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Star noted that breakfast prices have increased by only ten
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  Speaker 1: cents since twenty seventeen, and lunch prices increase by just
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  Speaker 1: ten cents in twenty twenty four. The proposed adjustment is
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  Speaker 1: necessary to maintain financial stability of the food service program
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  Speaker 1: and offset continuing increases of those food, labor and operating costs.
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  Speaker 1: Setar said. Student registration fees will stay the same in
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  Speaker 1: the new school year, collecting on past due fees. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: the district is owed more than five million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: unpaid student fees. Schools are prohibited from withholding students grades, transcripts,
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  Speaker 1: or diplomas because of an unpaid balance on the student
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  Speaker 1: school account. We're looking at different options and being able
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  Speaker 1: to recoup that, District three hundred and eight chief financial
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  Speaker 1: Officer and Chief school business Official Rafael Obafami told school
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  Speaker 1: board members. Oba Phemi said families who are eligible for
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  Speaker 1: not paying the fees don't have to worry. They've gone
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  Speaker 1: through the income verification, he said, and the same thing
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  Speaker 1: applies to reduced fees. The district covers about sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: square miles, with students not only from Oswego, but also
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  Speaker 1: from Aurora, Joliet, Montgomery, Plainfield and Yorkville.