Oakland school suppers quietly vanish in district fiscal crisis




San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area - Spoken Edition show

Summary: Ingrid Seyer-Ochi goes to Grocery Outlet twice a month to buy boxes of fig bars and other snacks. The principal of Franklin Elementary School in East Oakland uses her own money for the snacks she gives to students at her school. She says several students come to her office every day looking for something to calm their growling stomachs. “Kids are hungry,” she told me when I was at the school one recent morning.