Seattle City Council Delays Universal School Meals

Seattle Public Schools students will have to wait another year for universal free school meals.At a nearly four-hour committee meeting today, the Seattle City Council voted 6 to 3 for an amendment that delays Mayor Katie Wilson’s universal school meals program until the 2027 school year to fund a new, means-tested voucher program to feed thousands of low-income kids on weekends and over school breaks for the next six years.The vote is a blow to Mayor Wilson, who had planned to fund univer