All Pa. students will get free breakfast, a centerpiece of Shapiro’s budget

Ypsilanti Lincoln School lunch

With historic funding levels for education, Gov. Josh Shapiro's 2023-2024 budget provides universal free school breakfasts for all Pennsylvania students. (Kayla Renie | MLive.com)Kayla Renie | mrenie@mlive.com

On any given school day, Steelton-Highspire School District assistant superintendent Willie Slade gets to see first hand the benefits of providing children with free school breakfast.

Whether in the elementary or middle school or the high school, Slade takes note of all the students participating in the free breakfast program.

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