Bristol Borough Home Owners School Debt Forgiveness

Bristol Borough School District cancels prior-year student meal debt
Since the start of the pandemic, schools across the nation have been feeding students for free through the federal universal free lunch program. Students and families were also not asked to pay any pre-pandemic lunch debt that had accumulated prior to the pandemic.

The expiration of the federal lunch program means that schools can resume their policies to collect the debt. Bristol Borough School District instead decided to forgive the $21,000 of debt on its books. The forgiveness came with an announcement that the district would collect debt incurred starting with the current school year.

So far, Bristol Borough is the only school district in Bucks County that has outright eliminated prior school meal debt.
Source: Bucks County Courier Times; 9/4/2022