For a variety of reasons, nearly 5 out of 6 children who qualify for free and reduced meals at LAUSD schools do not eat free meals during the summer. The additional cost a family with two children must absorb to replace these school meals is $853.20.

For too many of our children, and for their parents, summer is not a vacation…summer is a season to worry about where the next meal is coming from and the sacrifices that have to be made to put food on the table.