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Gddsskb, so a private company that receives public funds is also protected from having to explain itself? What a racket.

wwkvoter, the USDA subsidizes public school meals and sends the money through RIDE, which then distributes it to each school district (as far as I can tell) based on the number of students in the district.

The towns that use the state vendor, Chartwells, are mainly in the East Bay and Washington County (again, as far as I can tell from limited online research). Your point stands, though, that Warwick may benefit from lower overall costs if it joined this larger group.

Overall, though, the main point of all this remains unaddressed: School districts are acting like collection agencies for companies to provide meals to children who are legally required to be in a school building for 7-8 hours a day, and providing the basic necessity of food has become a profit center for private corporations.

School shouldn't be piggy banks for corporations.