An attempt to stave off the end of free school meals languished in the Colorado legislature with its $90 million price tag. With less than two weeks left in the session, a new approach would put it to voters if they want to continue the program.
With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, a new approach to the same goal — down to the same sponsoring lawmakers and same bill name — would put it to voters if they want to continue the program.would ask voters in November, via ballot measure, if they want to limit tax deductions for the wealthiest households to raise up to $100 million to pay for the program beginning in the fall 2024 school year.
Sponsor Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet, D-Commerce City, said she thinks the people of Colorado will support the program and the tax increase to pay for it — especially when they realize how many kids are going hungry at schools. Public schools served about 1.3 million more meals in October 2021, when the free meal program was in full swing, compared to pre-pandemic October 2019.
Sponsor Sen. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood, said she hates to think about how many children will go hungry during a gap year. Growing up, she spent time on her school’s free and reduced lunch program, and remembers the stigma of it. She testified earlier in the session to either skipping meals altogether or waiting until the other students had left the lunchroom to eat.
“It’s very popular when you talk about how it would be funded and where it would go,” Pettersen said of the free meals proposal. “The difficulty is the TABOR ballot measure language. It creates a sticker shock with the way it’s phrased and so people, even if they support the concept, would they be able to get over the way it’s presented to them within TABOR?”
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