The Knoxville School Board heard a report on the Child Nutrition Department at their meeting on Monday.

Knoxville School Superintendent Cassi Pearson tells KNIA/KRLS News this year the school board put a policy in place that would allow students to eat lunch until they owed $10 in unpaid meal charges and then students would be given an alternate lunch until they reached $40 in unpaid meal charges. Pearson says no student ever reached the $40 dollar mark so no student ever went without a meal and with the new policy in place the school district only showed $212.81 owed in unpaid meal charges at the end of the year as opposed to $44,000 in unpaid meal charges last year. Pearson says with the help of the Knoxville parents the Child Nutrition Department was able to keep the amount of owed money down and made it possible for every child to eat. Pearson adds, the district is always accepting donations to help pay for the children’s meal accounts and if anyone wants to help out they can always contact Knoxville School District Business Manager Craig Mobley.