Food News

To save you time and share ideas that may improve your school food service program, we curate news stories on school meals and childhood nutrition.

Date	Title	Source
8/2/22	Without free school meals for all, many fear lunch debt will return ‘with a vengeance’	Chalkbeat
8/1/22	Free school meals helped families during the pandemic. This fall, those lunches won’t return.	The 19th
8/1/22	Massachusetts to pilot universal school meal program	Western Mass News
7/27/22	Congressional Democrats push to expand access to free school meals	Education Week
7/27/22	As supply chain woes persist for school meals, districts get creative	K-12 Dive
7/27/22	School nutrition professionals brace for continued supply chain challenges	FoodService Director
7/24/22	Another increase in USDA reimbursements for school meals	Food and Environment Reporting Network
7/22/22	The House Committee on Education and Labor releases Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill	FoodService Director
7/21/22	Child nutrition reauthorization plan calls for expanding free meal access	K-12 Dive
7/20/22	Universal free school lunch program is set to expire	The Washington Post
7/19/22	Massachusetts budget extends free school meal program	Boston Globe
7/18/22	Senator plans to pass Keep Kids Fed Act permanently	WRVO-FM (Oswego, NY)
7/14/22	School nutrition programs prepare for changes	Nebraska Public Media
7/13/22	District encourages meal program applications	The Republic (Columbus, Ind.)
7/13/22	Miffed over navy bean recipe, students take on federal school lunch program	Agweek
7/13/22	California budgets $100 million for K-12 plant-based ingredients	Green Queen
7/12/22	School nutrition pros, vendors gather at SNA conference	WOLF-TV (Orlando)
7/8/22	Students make the most honest school lunch taste testers	Wall Street Journal
7/7/22	As school lunch waivers expire, school officials encourage more applications	Yahoo News
7/7/22	Families worried about school lunch prices as inflation soars	KRMG
7/1/22	USDA to give school nutrition programs close to $1B in procurement aid	FoodService Director
6/30/22	USDA allocates $943M to help schools buy local foods	The Packer
6/30/22	School lunches aren't free to everyone anymore. Some advocates think they should be.	Marketplace.org
6/29/22	Schools make difficult decision about meal prices	WCNC-TV
6/27/22	Families brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals	The Associated Press
6/25/22	Biden signs the school meal waivers bill into law, but free meals are over for many	NPR
6/24/22	Congress extends pandemic school lunch waivers, though not all kids will benefit	CNN
6/22/22	Lawmakers reach bipartisan deal on free school meal funding - with some changes	Detroit Free Press
6/21/22	School meal waivers expire in 9 days. After axing them, Congress may try to save them.	NPR
6/19/22	Analysis: Summer meal participation could decline	CNN
6/18/22	Free school lunches for all set to end, creating ‘perfect storm’ amid high inflation	MSN
6/17/22	Push to renew federal school meal waivers persists	Food & Environment Reporting Network
6/17/22	Don't take lunch from America's students	The Washington Post
6/16/22	School nutrition pro concerned about child poverty	NPR
6/15/22	Are expiring school meal waivers a looming catastrophe?	Civil Eats
6/14/22	U.S. free school meal program ends June 30 - What next?	Newsweek
6/8/22	Schools may get USDA funding to buy US commodities	Politico
6/7/22	For millions of students, a school lunch crisis might be impending	Bon Appetit
6/7/22	School children at risk of losing free universal lunch	MSNBC
6/6/22	Schools to raise meal prices as food costs increase	The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Marion, Iowa)
6/6/22	Hunger 'cliff' looms as pandemic school lunch aid is running out	Bloomberg Law
6/6/22	Pandemic rules for school lunch program expiring	Marketplace
6/1/22	Vermont funds statewide universal school meal program	Bennington Banner
5/31/22	Some states want to lock in universal free school meals as federal waivers end	Education Week
5/26/22	School nutrition pros face "dire" supply chain woes	U.S. News & World Report
5/24/22	Inflation hits the lunch line: How higher costs and supply chain issues are affecting school lunches	CBS News
5/20/22	School nutrition directors prepare for next academic year with and without universal meals	K-12 Dive
5/19/22	New law requires Illinois schools to offer a plant-based lunch alternative to students	FoodService Director
5/17/22	Pandemic EBT: A vital tool to reduce childhood hunger this summer	Food Research & Action Center
5/17/22	Equity in the lunchroom: Minnesota coalition pushes to keep school meals free for all students once federal aid expires	KARE 11