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DETROIT—Nearly 83 percent of Detroit high school students do not take advantage of the federal free or reduced-price lunches program, and this has some school officials worried.
It's not that children are not eating (they seem to prefer vending machine snacks to their schools' cafeteria food); it's that $88.8 million in annual federal aid is based in part on how many students avail themselves of the subsidized lunches.
Detroit officials hope that the new plan to privatize the district's food services under former schools chief David Adamany's Education First initiative will result in cuisine that students will find more agreeable to their taste buds.
