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
11/1/22	Colorado voters to vote on universal free school lunches	NPR
11/2/22	Inflation hits school lunches as districts cut menu items and raise meal prices	The Wall Street Journal
11/7/22	Selfless woman pays off overdue school lunch accounts: 'Makes me cry'	Newsweek
11/8/22	Colorado Proposition FF: Universal free meals to students is close to reality with voters largely in favor	The Denver Post
11/8/22	Election results: Tuesday returns favor Colorado Proposition FF, free school meals	Chalkbeat/Colorado
11/9/22	Colorado voters say yes to universal free school meals. Will other states follow?	Education Week
11/9/22	Universal free lunch ballot measure passes easily in Colorado	NPR
11/10/22	USDA hopes $50M can make school lunch more ‘appetizing,’ ‘appealing’	Fox News
11/11/22	From lineman to 'lunch man,' former NFL player inspires youth as school cook	USA Today
11/11/22	USDA launches School Food System Transformation Challenge	FoodService Director
11/16/22	'They just start crying': Student food insecurity and debt rising across Minnesota	MPR News
11/16/22	School district offers students free lunch on Fridays to help ease burden of costs	Spectrum News
11/18/22	Supplying lesser school meals is unlawful, Minn. attorney general finds	Star Tribune
11/18/22	More states consider universal free school lunch after federal assistance ends	ABC 15 Arizona
11/20/22	On social media, universal free school lunch is popular	Food and Environment Reporting Network
11/21/22	School district, families navigate school lunch debt	KAAL-TV
11/21/22	Something fishy — or not fishy enough? — in school lunches	K-12 Dive
11/21/22	Minnesota schools that give alternative meals to students with meal debt are breaking the law, state attorney general says	FoodService Director
11/23/22	Survey: Secondary students warming up to school meals	K-12 Dive
11/26/22	Feeding students: School districts, organizations push for state funding for universal meals	The Daily Gazette (New York)
11/28/22	How one organization is reducing food waste in Rhode Island schools	FoodService Director
12/2/22	Student lunch debt is expected to rise. TikTokers to the rescue?	EdWeek
12/6/22	Participation in USDA school meal programs drops, federal survey shows	K-12 Dive
12/7/22	Food businesses unite to help tackle school meal debt this holiday season	FoodService Director
12/12/22	Some milks served in schools exceed salt, sugar recommendations	Center for Science in the Public Interest
12/12/22	What families lost when the US lost universal free school meals	The Hill
12/12/22	Amid rising hunger, MN sees renewed calls for universal lunches	Public News Service
12/13/22	Schools are struggling to get families to apply for free meals	Education Week
12/14/22	Educators largely support universal free meals for students, but worry about complications	Education Week
12/16/22	With universal school meals gone, districts and families take on more debt	K-12 Dive
12/16/22	No chicken nuggets? How supply chain snags are affecting school lunch.	Marketplace
12/20/22	Omnibus bill includes two major provisions that would help keep children fed over the summer	NBC News
12/21/22	Summer meals, funding for high-poverty schools: What the federal spending bill means for students	Chalkbeat
12/31/22	States put free school meals on the menu	Politico
12/31/22	Parents advocate for longer elementary lunches	Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
1/4/23	K-12 federal funding sees 5.6% increase for FY 2023	K-12 Dive
1/5/23	How school lunch is made. It's more complicated than you think.	Yahoo News
1/6/23	What teens think of their school lunches: 5 takeaways from a national survey	Education Week
1/9/23	States eye universal school meals ahead of legislative sessions	K-12 Dive
1/11/23	Meal debt is a growing problem for school districts, survey shows	Education Week
1/11/23	As pandemic aid ends, many schools struggle to fund meals for kids	CBS News
1/11/23	Schools are swamped by unpaid lunch debt, nutrition group says	The Washington Post
1/12/23	SNA survey finds cost, labor and supply issues as top school meal program concerns	Food Management
1/14/23	Student lunch debt skyrocketing across country	CBS News
1/20/23	How K-12 operators are tackling labor and supply chain issues	FoodService Director
1/22/23	Families struggle as pandemic program offering free school meals ends	The New York Times
1/24/23	No more nuggets? School lunch goes farm-to-table — for some	AP News
1/26/23	Massachusetts state legislators look to make free school meals permanent	Boston Herald
1/26/23	New Mexico lawmakers eat school lunch before considering universal meals	Albuquerque Journal
1/30/23	'Try it Tuesday' brings healthy food to Minnesota school	KARE 11