Thanks to a federal program, 15 Bossier Parish schools will offer free breakfast and lunch to students during the 2016-2017 school year, regardless of household income.

Bossier Schools’ Child Nutrition Program is partnering with the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide over 7,500 students with a healthy breakfast and lunch each school day for free.

The only qualification is that students must be enrolled at one of these 15 schools:

  • Bossier Elementary
  • Bossier High
  • Butler Educational Complex
  • Carrie Martin Elementary
  • Central Park Elementary
  • Elm Grove Elementary
  • Greenacres Middle
  • Kerr Elementary
  • Meadowview Elementary
  • Plain Dealing High
  • Plantation Park Elementary
  • Platt Elementary
  • T.O. Rusheon Middle
  • T.L. Rodes Elementary
  • Waller Elementary

The program is designed to help alleviate children from being labeled in the lunch line and allows children to eat for free.

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