AUSTIN — Thirty thousand dollars of debt, that’s the amount of money Austin ISD students have accrued by not being able to pay for their school lunches.
But now, builders and developers from the Austin Infill Coalition are helping to chip away at that.
“No matter how amazing Austin ISD is, if a kid at school is hungry, they’re not going to learn, said Ed Ishmael, the Chairperson of Builders Care Austin.
According to him, more than 50 builders and developers raised $10,000 to help pay off student lunch debt for about 3,400 AISD students.
“We look at these schools at the foundations of our community, and we look at these kids as our future, so what better way to invest in our future than invest in these kids,…
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