MAGA Cuts SNAP Cuts Starve Shawnee Mission School District?!?

This not so tasty tidbit might offer TKC readers a moment of pause . . .

Many conservatives don't mind urban school crackdowns BUT is it harder to justify suburban reductions in desperately needed food assistance?!?

Either way, U.S. belt tightening now threatens students & families in otherwise affluent and peaceful Johnson County . . . At least according to this report . . . Check-it:  

In the Shawnee Mission School District, one in five students gets free meals through SNAP. Right now, those students are automatically enrolled if they receive government assistance like Medicaid.

A new federal budget proposal could make access more complicated, and according to Grace Liss, the SMSD Director of Food Service, it may hurt more than just families.

“When we have less number that qualify for free and reduced meals, that affects our state funding too. So not just for the food service department, but for the district on a whole, they may receive less at-risk funding because of the fact that we have a less number of free and reduced students," said Liss.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

'We're becoming less efficient,' SMSD warns federal budget proposal risks meal benefits for students