{"id":380565,"date":"2026-08-25T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380565\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:54:14","slug":"free-after-school-meals-will-continue-at-key-biscayne-k-8-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380565\/","title":{"rendered":"Free after-school meals will continue at Key Biscayne K-8 | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students enrolled in after-school programs at Key Biscayne K-8 Center will continue to receive meals at no separate charge during the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The school is among more than 285 Miami-Dade County public schools participating in the district\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridahealth.gov\/individual-family-health\/child-infant-youth\/child-care-food-program\/afterschool-meals-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afterschool Meals Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandernews.com\/news\/education\/universal-free-meals-end-at-schools-serving-key-biscayne\/article_cfa30743-409f-4214-8375-457584805a89.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">universal free breakfast and lunch ended<\/a> at schools serving Key Biscayne. Unlike that broader program, the after-school meals are available specifically to children enrolled in regularly scheduled educational or enrichment programs after school.<\/p>\n<p>The meals must meet U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition requirements and include fresh fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>The program operates under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fna.usda.gov\/cacfp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USDA\u2019s Child Care Food Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students enrolled in after-school programs at Key Biscayne K-8 Center will continue to receive meals at no separate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152733,152732,27447,146585,61336,123,125,124,60224,15365],"class_list":["post-380565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-child-care-food-program","tag-free-after-school-meals","tag-free-meals","tag-free-school-meals","tag-key-biscayne-k8-center","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-school-lunch","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380565","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=380565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}