All school menus can be accessed through the LINQ Connect portal or mobile app. Families do not need a LINQ account to view menus, which are available to the public.

Please note, menus for the 2023-2024 school year are forthcoming.

The LINQ Connect online menus additionally display nutritional information, allergens, dietary and religious restrictions, and more.

All students may receive meals at no cost for the entire 2021-2022 school year.

The United States Department of Agriculture issued pandemic flexibilities for schools and daycare facilities through June 2022 to support safe reopening and healthy, nutritious meals. These waivers will allow schools nationwide to serve universal free breakfast and lunch through the 2021-2022 school year through USDA’s National School Lunch Program Seamless Summer Option, which is typically only available during the summer months.

Details on HCPSS Food and Nutrition Services can be found at www.hcpss.org/food-services. 

Home and hospital teaching services may be provided in the home school, home, hospital, or community setting.  In certain cases, instruction may be provided using technologies that allow the student to communicate and collaborate with a teacher and students from a remote location that is outside their traditional classroom. 

Usually six hours per week of instruction are provided for full-time home and hospital instruction, unless otherwise specified.

The IEP team, with your input, will decide how support services will be provided. Please address this question to them.

Students' grades during Home and Hospital instruction will be determined in collaboration with the classroom teacher and the home and hospital teacher.  Final quarterly grades and exams are entered by the classroom teacher.  For time periods where the student was both in school and on home and hospital, grades will be averaged proportionately.

If the child is hospitalized, collaboration between the hospital’s local school district, hospital staff and HCPSS will be coordinated through the Home and Hospital Office. Please inform your child’s home school when a hospitalization is imminent.

Students enrolled in the Howard County Public School system are eligible for interim Home and Hospital instructional sessions when it is determined by an appropriate medical provider per COMAR (13A.03.05.04) that a student’s medical diagnosis is serious enough to preclude school attendance (three weeks - 60 days) or a chronic health impairment that causes the student to be absent at least 20% of the time.