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Lawmakers pass bill to keep schools from suing over student meal debt
4 minutes Posted Feb 22, 2021 at 11:00 pm.
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  Adelle Settle learned in 2017 that school lunches were being taken out of children’s hands when they couldn’t pay for the meal. Instead, children were given a cheese sandwich or a snack. Settle was inspired to start Settle the Debt, a nonprofit organization that pays off school meal debt at Prince William County schools. The organization has raised almost 0,000 in almost four years, Settle said. “It leaves the kid hungry, you’re not giving the child an adequate meal at that point and people see it,” Settle said. “It makes them feel terrible about themselves, so I just wanted...

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