Rising Food Costs Hitting School's Budgets
POSTED: Thursday, May 1, 2008
UPDATED: 8:01 pm CDT May 1, 2008
SAN ANTONIO -- The rising price of groceries is not only hitting home, it's hitting schools too. Now, some San Antonio school districts are looking at raising prices in their cafeterias for next school year.
Northside Independent School District dishes up 84,000 meals a day. These days, the price of everything from milk to apples is taking a bigger bite out of the budget.
"At Northside, we've managed those budgets very well, but it does appear next year we'll have to raise the price of breakfast items only," said NISD spokesman Pascual Gonzalez.
Next year, breakfast will cost NISD students 90 cents instead of the 75 or 85 cents it costs now.
Northeast Independent School District officials won't know for several weeks if they will have to raise prices as the bids come in for next year's meals.
In the San Antonio Independent School District as well as in the Harlandale Independent School District, all of the students eat meals for free. The districts won't know until summer if government reimbursements will keep pace with food prices.
"We're looking at the a la carte menu where it's extra items they want to purchase. We'll probably need to increase prices on those," said SAISD spokeswoman Carmen Vasquez-Gonzalez.
SAISD may also reduce the number of choices for extras like ice cream, she said.
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