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Lunch Prices Boosted for EdwardsvilDistrict Eases Bus CmBy Norma Sknroonea Of the intelligencerEciwardsville School District Board of Education Monday night approved changes in tho bus card policy which will allow children in Kindergarten through 6th grade to show bus1 cards for only a month after the cards arc issued.Ail others, including all paid riders, will have to show cards whenever they ride the buses.The board also approved raising school lunch prices to 45 cents and 85 cents. Student lunches had been 40 cents, Adult lunches were raised 10 cents to 85.According to Patsy Carver, director of the lunch program, lising costs made the increases necessary. Food and labor costs rise annually, she said, and commodity distribution is expected to be loss.Other items on the school menus, bought separately, were raised live cents, Milk for students was increased a penny, to four cents, and for adults it was raised two cents, to 10 cents.No change had been made in the student lunch prices since 15)70,The 1970 increase was on lunches in elemental y school a only, from 37 to 40 cents.State ApprovalThe approved increases are first approved by the board and will now go to the office of the slate superintendent public instruction for approval.Several of the board memberssuggested the price rise on adult lunches should be more.I think the adult lunch should be $l, said Nick Harailos, “Beef just went up another nickel a pound today.”Willard Pfeiffer said that ho visited several of tho school cafeterias. Lunches offered adults at the schools would cost as* much as $1.45 in a restaurant, he said.Miss Carver said “Not a great number of adults eat the full lunch” and that a larger increase would not make that much difference in the over-all receipts,EflS Principal Neal Schmolzel said increases only cut down on adults present at cafeterias. Their presence helps maintain an orderly atmosphere at lunch time, he said.The board also approved a proposal to offer evening classes for credit, to allow persons who arc near credit requirements to receive their high school diplomas,According 1o Joe Lucco, assistant superintendent oi schools he doesn't knosv how many people would want to take advantage of the program, but he considers there may be quite a few,Instructors would be paid the rate tor evening hours, $6,24, ho said, although only two district teachers had indicated by I tiic deadline yesterday that they ; would be interested, iClasses would be offered in |
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Edwardsville Intelligencer
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Tue, Dec 12, 1972
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