Free School Lunch Initiative Approved to Appear on November Ballot

Free school lunch measure qualifies for North Dakota’s November ballot

By: Bobby Falat BISMARCK, N.D. (Valley News Live) – North Dakota voters will decide this fall whether to guarantee free breakfast and lunch for all public school students after a petition drive collected enough signatures to place the measure on the November ballot. Secretary of State Michael Howe announced that 49,338 signatures were accepted from petitions submitted on April 9, more than 18,000 signatures above the required threshold. The meas…

Free school lunches measure qualifies for North Dakota’s November ballot

If approved by voters, all public school districts, public schools, and public charter schools would provide one free breakfast and one free lunch each school day to enrolled students.

Free school lunch initiative approved to appear on November ballot

North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe has approved an initiative seeking to require schools to provide free school meals for children, moving it to the November ballot for a public vote.

Initiated measure funding school meals approved for November ballot

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Secretary of State's office has approved a constitutional initiative to fund school meals for inclusion on November's general election ballot. A release from Secretary of State Michael Howe said he reviewed the petitions delivered to his office last month by the Together for School Meals campaign, proponents of the measure. Howe determined 49,338 of the 57,419 signatures submitted campaign were acceptable, 18,174 sign…

Free school lunch measure approved for November ballot in North Dakota

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) –  A constitutional measure to fund school lunches will appear on the ballot in November across North Dakota. Secretary of State Michael Howe reviewed the petitions submitted to his office in April and accepted nearly 50,000 of the more than 57,000 signatures submitted. The measure needed more than 31,000 signatures to get on the ballot. “Together for School Meals” is the group behind the effort to ensure every K-12 student…