DETROIT (WXYZ) — Starting Thursday, the Detroit Public Schools Community District will offer free meals for students and their families amid the temporary closing of schools due to the coronavirus pandemic.
DPSCD announced Monday a restructuring of its original student and family distribution plan to address the continued health concerns highlighted by the governor’s latest stay-at-home executive order to better protect the health of employees, according to a release.
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This new plan will increase the number of meals offered to families and the number of meals offered throughout the week. Beginning on Thursday, March 26, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., a revised list of 17 schools will offer students and families a bag of four pre-cooked breakfast meals and four pre-cooked lunches.
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Food distribution will continue every subsequent Monday and Thursday at the 17 schools. On Monday, three pre-cooked breakfast meals will be provided along with three pre-cooked lunches. On Thursdays, once again, four pre-cooked breakfasts and lunches will be provided. Students/families can pick up the food at any of the 17 sites. Monday and Thursday door to door delivery will still take place for medically fragile DPSCD students. Academic enrichment packets will also be available at these sites.
1. Denby
2. East English Village
3. Fisher Upper
4. Law
5. Martin Luther King
6. Pershing
7. Southeastern
8. Brenda Scott
9. Cass
10. Central
11. Charles H. Wright
12. Cody
13. Frederick Douglass Academy
14. Mumford
15. Munger
16. Renaissance
17. Western
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