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TX: Feds may withhold $100M over school lunch errors

By   /   October 15, 2012  /   Comments Off

By Curt Olson | Texas Watchdog

LUNCH: If the La Joya Independent School District can’t keep track of its school lunches, it will lose federal funding.

AUSTIN — La Joya Independent School District has two months to prove it can account for all lunches served in the district or risk losing out on $100 million in federal funding.

The district has struck out twice so far. It has reported serving thousands more meals a month than it actually doled out, two audits conducted by the Texas Department of Agriculture in the last year showed.

If a third audit in December reveals discrepancies, the district will lose $100 million over five years, the Mission Progress Times reports.

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