Star Tribune, Attorney General: Lunch shaming isn't legal under Minnesota law

In 2021, we passed the anti-lunch shaming bill in the state of Minnesota, because lunch shaming has no place in our schools. And now, the Attorney General issued his formal opinion.

"Minnesota law is clear: Students whose families are struggling to afford their lives cannot be denied a regular school lunch or offered a substandard alternate meal in place of a regular lunch," Ellison said in the release. "That practice is another form of 'lunch shaming' that is an affront to the dignity of those students and is not allowed under the law."

Read more in the Star Tribune.