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Originally Posted by Lightspeed

School lunches spending cut of 30-50% 'in the ballpark', Seymour says

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On Tuesday, Seymour told Breakfast the Ministry of Education did not have any hard evidence that the programme was making a difference for children across the board.

The ministry had done five studies on the programme. None of them asked the basic question: "If we compare the students that got the school lunches, with the students that didn't, have we seen an improvement in kids getting to school, and kids achieving?"