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Rising Food Prices Impact School Lunch Costs Save Email Print
Posted: 12:37 PM Apr 25, 2008
Last Updated: 12:37 PM Apr 25, 2008
Reporter: Associated Press

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LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- Rising food prices are having an effect on the cost of school lunches.

Most school districts in Wisconsin will review their budgets this summer, but the La Crosse, Viroqua, Tomah and Sparta School Districts say lunch program prices will likely be raised.

Bangor School District administrator Roger Foegen says families are feeling the financial pinch all over, but schools have no choice other than to raise prices.

It costs more for food and for transporting the meals to the schools.

Foegen says his district already subsidizes the lunch program that runs in the red.

The La Crosse School District expects to increase the cost of a meal by 5 to 10 cents.

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