Local School Nutrition Leader Appointed to Statewide Leadership Role
Check out one of Arkansas SNA’s amazing board members featured in the Star Herald
We’re so proud to see her recognized for her dedication to child nutrition and leadership across our state. What a wonderful example of how strong administrative support helps school nutrition programs — and leaders — thrive!
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The Christian Science Monitor article on School Debt
No free lunch? School districts work to feed students as meal debt soars.
When the Little Rock School District noticed student meal debt ballooning over a year and a half, it put out a call for community help in May. At more than $200,000, it was an amount never before seen by the district.
Donations started pouring in, including an $11.89 check from a great-grandmother who wished she could give more, says Stephanie Walker Hynes, the Arkansas district’s director of child nutrition. By August, donations totaling more than $50,000 – many of them from individual “angel” investors – had chiseled away at the debt, which had accrued at 13 of the district’s schools that did not qualify for federal free meals for all students.
In the news: The article features ASNA Vice President and SNA PPL Committee Member Stephanie Walker-Hynes of Little Rock School District.