Ontario’s budget, released last week, also did not increase the province’s contributions to school food programs
In Toronto, last year the city declined 13 applications from schools for nutrition programs. The city contributes $17-million to such programs in about 600 schools, including seven programs in independent ones.
John Yan, executive director of the Angel Foundation for Learning, said that typically one or two TCDSB schools will apply for a nutrition program. Five Catholic schools applied for next September, he said. Mr. Yan said that for some children, the food they receive at school is the only nutritious meal they have that day.Increased food costs mean that municipal and provincial funding covers only 44 cents of every dollar spent on an elementary school breakfast program, said Catherine Parsonage, who heads the Toronto Foundation for Student Success. The charity supports TDSB children through food and other wellness programs.
In the absence of public funding, some school communities have taken matters upon themselves. The parent community at Roden Public School and Equinox Holistic Alternative School, both housed in the same building, have run a hot-lunch program since the 2018-19 school year.
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