When students return to class in the Nevada Joint Union High School District, they’ll have to pay more for meals. Breakfast prices are going up 25-cents, to 2-dollars, and lunch will cost another 50-cents, or 4-dollars. The district’s assistant superintendent for business services, Karen Suenram, says the recent trend to provide more nutritious food is also costlier…

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The district projects a boost of 16-thousand dollars, with the price hikes, but the cafeteria fund is projected to hit around 100-thousand. Suenram says they’re also looking into a couple of other ways to improve revenue…

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It will be the first meal price increases in 8 years. Suenram estimates that around half of the students pay full price for school meals on a regular basis, with 35-thousand lunches sold last year, the most popular meal. But tens of thousands of free and reduced-price meals were also consumed.