{"id":367191,"date":"2026-08-10T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367191\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:46:10","slug":"broward-organization-helping-students-prepare-for-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367191\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward organization helping students prepare for new school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 On the last weekend before the new school year starts, organizations across South Florida are making sure kids have what they need to be successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Peanut Butter Jelly Project took over the second floor at Fort Lauderdale High School this year, as organizers stacked tables with backpacks, notebooks, pens and pencils. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All of the supplies were ready for students like Valeria Ruiz, who is looking forward to beginning fifth grade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to start school next week because school is a place you make friends and you start learning about and you start learning about new things every year,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For 10 years now, Peanut Butter Jelly Project Founder Brooke Waltzer has been lightening the load for families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSome of these lists that they get are $250-300 for the whole school year,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes that means paying a light bill or getting your kids school supplies that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To go along with the new school supplies, changes are coming to the breakfast and lunch menu at school in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The universal free lunch programs has ended for many students, as only 141 Broward schools will offer free lunch while in Miami-Dade, only 121 schools will continue with free lunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For campuses that don\u2019t qualify, parents will need to submit an application to determine whether their child can receive free lunch. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Magdala Louissaint\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/37f8699f-d0f0-420f-8dfa-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Magdala Louissaint<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Magdala Louissaint joined WPLG in August 2025 and is thrilled to call South Florida home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 On the last weekend before the new school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-367191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}