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#Students1stDbnSchs-Dearborn offering free meal pickup to students

Press Release #44/2019-20
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2020
Contact: David Mustonen, Communications Director
(313) 827-3006 mustond@dearbornschools.org

Dearborn Schools offering free breakfast and lunch pickup for students at six sites

Dearborn
Public Schools is offering free pickup lunch and breakfast for students while
school is closed for the mandatory shut down over the next three weeks.

Families
will be able to stop in and pick up a bag with both breakfast and lunch for
each child in the family.  Pickups will
run daily from 10 a.m. to noon starting tomorrow, March 17 at Fordson, Edsel
Ford and Dearborn high schools, McCollough-Unis, Salina Intermediate, and
Woodworth Middle School.

Signage
at each site will direct parents and students where to enter the building. Food
will be near entrances to minimize the amount of time community members spend
in the facilities.

Please
note, meals are available to anyone age 18 and younger.  Students do not need to be present, and the
Dearborn School student does not need to attend at that building.  A designated person can collect meals for
multiple children.  Meals for Saturday
and Sunday can be picked up on Friday.

The
program will allow the District’s 20,700 students to continue to have access to
healthy food.  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last
week ordered all Michigan schools closed from March 16 through April 3 to slow
the spread of novel coronavirus and cases of COVID-19.  Dearborn Schools is scheduled for spring
break April 6 to 10, so school will not resume in the District until April 13.

The
grab-and-go meals will be served at least through April 3.

Superintendent
Glenn Maleyko praised the District’s food service team for quickly implementing
this drastic change in service to meet the needs of families.

“We
appreciate the patience of our families and community as we all try to adjust
to this sudden change from closing schools,” Dr. Maleyko said.  “More than three quarters of our students
qualify for free or reduced priced school meals.  We realize this food is important to our
families, many of whom may be facing additional financial hardships from the
sudden economic changes related to COVID-19.”

Check the Dearborn Public Schools website at http://www.dearbornschools.org for any updates or changes to the meal program or for other issues regarding the school closure.

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