New Brunswick’s pay-what-you-can school lunch program rolled out last week at 252 schools. Forty-five schools are facing delays in the programs implementation, most of them in the Anglophone South School District.
Some schools don’t have access to service providers, province says.
Nipun Tiwari · CBC News
· Posted: Sep 18, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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The province’s school lunch program had rolled out in 252 schools as of Monday. (Allyson McCormack/CBC)
The Education Department says the pay-what-you-can school lunch program that rolled out last week is now officially operating at 252 New Brunswick schools — up from 241 at the start of the school year.
But 45 schools still don’t have lunch programs.
The majority of the delays are in the Anglophone South School District, where the number of schools affected — 38 — is largely unchanged, according to numbers the department provided on Wednesday.
The service providers are generally local restaurants.
Until a Thursday afternoon announcement, Grand Manan Community School was one of those without providers.
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