Sunday, February 2, 2025

Concerned about tariffs and schools?

 This K-12 Dive piece from December tackles that topic. Construction gets hit both by a tariff on goods from Canada and by a crackdown on immigration. 

If your vegetable drawer looks like mine, you may have wondered about school nutrition; note: 

When it comes to the food served in cafeterias, K-12 food services are required by law to buy “to the maximum extent practicable, domestic commodities or products,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Not mentioned? Fuel.  

Not mentioned, of course, is that if budgets OVERALL tighten, money for schools ALSO will get tighter (and, for example, I'd suspect overrides get a little more tricky).  

Note, also: the tariffs aren't popular.

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