Federal pandemic funding for universal free school meals is ending, and income-based eligibility requirements are back.

A couple weeks after a study graded D.C. Public Schools’ school breakfast program as the best in the country, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) dropped in on a downtown elementary school during the lunch hour to inspect the meals being served. The school breakfast study cited in particular the 2010 Healthy Schools Act, which Cheh shepherded.

The District topped yet another ranking, this time for the percentage of low-income students enrolled in the school breakfast program.