• Is it an oversight on the part of the parents/guardians. Are they experiencing financial hardship? 
• Provide an application for free/reduced breakfast and lunch to the parents/guardians.
• Maybe a child neglect situation, this will need to be reported to a government agency to investigate the students' situation.   

• The Trump administration determined that more than 500,000 children would no longer be automatically eligible for free school meals under a proposed overhaul to the food stamp program, but left that figure out of its formal proposal, according to House Democrats.
• By changing the eligibility provisions, the unfortunate and harmful proposed changes to the SNAP program could compromise food access for millions of families in need as well as potentially inhibit the ability for our youth to achieve their true potential in and out of school.
• “Your child has been sent to school every day without money and without a breakfast and/or lunch. This is a failure to provide your child with proper nutrition and you can be sent to Dependency Court for neglecting your child’s right to food. If you are taken to Dependency court, the result may be your child being removed from your home and placed in foster care.”
  
  

• The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to examine the issue of school meal debt and ultimately required school districts to establish a policy for unpaid school meals fees. The USDA did not, however, establish any national standards for what districts or states must include in their policies, and did not provide any baseline protections for children and families. This is one big reason why the responses to lunch debt vary so widely.
• The No Shame at School Act, introduced by Sen. Tina Smith and Rep. Ilhan Omar (both Democrats from Minnesota) would ban any kind of identification of students who cannot pay for lunch at school, like wristbands or hand stamps, and would not allow schools to publish lists of students who owe money for school meals or use debt collectors to recoup meal fees. 
  
  

S.1907 - No Shame at School Act of 2019

• Overt Identification Prohibited —A local educational agency or school food authority may not, based on the status of a covered child as a covered child
• Eligibility Determination by Local Educational Agency —For any covered child who is a member of a household that has unpaid school meal fees for 1 consecutive week of meals or more, a local educational agency shall
• Collection of Unpaid School Meal Fees —In attempting to collect unpaid school meal fees from a household, a local educational agency or school food authority may not “(i) except as described in subparagraph (E), direct any communication regarding unpaid school meal fees to a covered child who is a member of the household; “(ii) withhold educational opportunities from, or otherwise stigmatize, a covered child due to the status of the covered child as a covered child; or “(iii) use a debt collector (as defined in section 803 of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1692a)).
• Eliminating Stigma in Meal Service—In providing a meal to a covered child, a local educational agency or school food authority may not, based on the status of the covered child as a covered child, dispose of or take away from the covered child any food that has already been served to the covered child.”.

S.1907 - No Shame at School Act of 2019

• Extension of eligibility of certain school districts to receive cash or commodity letters of credit assistance for school lunch programs
• Pilot program for high-poverty schools
• Year-round services for eligible entities: A service institution that is described in section 1761(a)(6) of this title (excluding a public school), or a private nonprofit organization described in section 1761(a)(7) of this title, and that is located in the State of California may be reimbursed for up to 2 meals during each day of operation served- during the months of May through September; (ii) in the case of a service institution that operates a food service program for children on school vacation, at anytime under a continuous school calendar; and (iii) in the case of a service institution that provides meal service at a nonschool site to children who are not in school for a period during the school year due to a natural disaster, building repair, court order, or similar case, at anytime during such a period; and for a snack served during each day of operation after school hours, weekends, and school holidays during the regular school calendar. Free lunch and breakfast eligibility: Subject to the availability of funds under paragraph (4), the Secretary shall expand the service of free lunches and breakfasts provided at schools participating in the school lunch program under this chapter or the school breakfast program under section 1773 of this title in all or part of 5 States selected by the Secretary (of which at least 1 shall be a largely rural State with a significant Native American population).

• Agricultural producer —The term ‘agricultural producer’ means a farmer, rancher, or fisher (including farm-raised fish).
• In awarding grants under this subsection, the Secretary shall seek to improve local food procurement and distribution options for agricultural producers and eligible institutions.
• Maximum amount - the total amount provided to a grant recipient under this subsection shall not exceed $250,000.
• Term —The term of an award shall not exceed 3 years.
• In general —Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Farm to School Act of 2019 and every 3 years thereafter, the Secretary shall review and submit to the Committees on Agriculture and Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that describes the progress that has been made in identifying and eliminating regulatory and other barriers related to developing farm to school programs.

• There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out a program to assist the States and the Department of Defense through grants-in-aid and other means to initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit breakfast programs in all schools which make application for assistance and agree to carry out a nonprofit breakfast program in accordance with this chapter. Appropriations and expenditures for this chapter shall be considered Health and Human Services functions for budget purposes rather than functions of Agriculture.
• Breakfast assistance payments to State educational agencies; calculation; national average payments for breakfasts, free breakfasts and reduced price breakfasts; maximum price for reduced cost breakfasts; minimum daily nutrition requirements criteria; additional payments for severe need schools; maximum severe need payments.
• Disbursement of apportioned funds by State; preference for schools in poor economic areas, for students traveling long distances daily, and for schools for improvement of nutrition and dietary practices of children of working mothers and from low-income families.

42 U.S. Code § 1773