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California To Become First State To Offer Free School Meals To Students
Sacramento To Pay $1.7 Million
LOS ANGELES - Begin- ning in the 2022-2023 school year, all California students will be able to receive free meals at school.
According to the California Department of Education, California will become the first state to implement a statewide Universal Meals Program.
Students in TK-12 will be given two meals free of charge each school day, breakfast and lunch, regard- less of income status. This applies to students in public school districts, county of- fices of education and charter schools.
The meal program is part of Assembly Bill (AB) 130 which was signed into law in 2021 by Gov. Gavin New-
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som. According to the de- partment of education, "AB 130 establishes a California Universal Meals Program with changes to the state meal mandate and new re- quirements for high poverty
schools to apply for a federal provision, such as the Com- munity Eligibility Provision or Provision 2."
The department says nu- tritious meals are a key pillar to help students thrive.
The city of Sacramento, California, will pay $1.7 mil- lion in a settlement with the parents of Stephon Clark, who was fatally shot by police in 2018.
Two Sacramento police of- ficers fired 20 shots at 22- year-old Clark, striking him seven times after chasing him to the backyard of his grand- mother’s home. The officers later said they believed Clark was holding a gun. It was a cellphone.
Neither officer faced charges after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert con- cluded they acted lawfully and that Clark was moving to- ward officers when they opened fire. Clark’s death and the subsequent lack of punishment of the officers in- volved led to mass protests in the city.
The city of Sacramento pre- viously settled a separate
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wrongful-death lawsuit in 2019 and paid $2.4 million to Clark’s two sons, ages 5 and 8. Friday’s settlement of $1.7 million went to Clark’s mother and father, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“Everyone wishes this heartbreaking event had not occurred,” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement. “A family lost a son, a grandson, a brother and a father.”
To Parents Of Stephon Clark,
Proposed Black Bank Aims To Raise $20 Million To Open In Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio’s largest city and capital, could be- come home to a Black-owned bank if leaders can make it happen.
Adelphi Bank founder Jor- dan Miller said it is talking with “high net-worth individ- uals and institutions in Cen- tral Ohio as it seeks to raise the initial $20 million, ” ac- cording to Columbus Business First.
The Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation (FDIC) granted approval subject to conditions in May for the startup. The drive is report- edly being initiated by a group of Black Columbus civic lead-
ers, including Miller and for- mer city mayor Michael Coleman.
Miller is supposedly leav- ing retirement to be the new bank’s CEO and chairman. He was a former regional presi- dent for Fifth Third Bank. A significant point is the FDIC order commands that the bank has conditional approval if a minimal of $17.6 million is raised.
Further, the bank’s debut would reverse a long trend of Black banks closing. FDIC data show only 19 Black banks in America as of the first quar- ter of 2022. That is down from a robust 48 banks in 2001.
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