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
8/6/20	How to Help Students Get Used to Masks	Edutopia
3/25/19	Why Lunch, Exercise, Sleep, and Air Quality Matter at School	EdWeek
12/2/22	Student lunch debt is expected to rise. TikTokers to the rescue?	EdWeek
4/4/19	Schools Are Feeding Hungry Students With Meals That Would Have Gone to Waste	EdWeek
4/28/21	Biden Pitches Plan to Expand Universal Pre-K, Free School Meal Programs, Teacher Training	EdWeek
12/14/18	Trump Administration Further Relaxes School Lunch Rules	EdWeek Blog
12/21/18	Kids Need Play and Recess. Their Mental Health May Depend on It.	EdWeek blog
1/14/19	How the shutdown is starting to impact schools	EdWeek Blog
4/15/24	Study says parent perceptions of school meals influence student participation in school meal programs	Elsevier
4/26/22	3 strategies to address new school nutrition standards	eSchool News
8/25/21	Elementary schools move lunch outdoors	Evanston Now
11/23/21	Federal program buys daily lunch for school district	Explore Big Sky
6/15/20	COVID-19 heightens fears about child hunger over summer break	Faribault Daily News
1/18/22	Community school dinners provide nutrition, gathering place for families	Faribault Daily News
3/23/23	New USDA investments aim to bolster school nutrition	Farm Progress
9/8/18	The 2018 USDA Food Insecurity Report is Bleak	Fast Company
7/16/21	USDA Publishes New Reimbursement Rates for SY2021-22	Federal Register
12/31/20	Summer Food Service Program; 2021 Reimbursement Rates	Federal Register
5/1/19	Study Shows Children More Likely To Face Hunger Than Overall Population Across America	Feeding America via PR Newswire and Yahoo
10/25/20	Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs was rising before pandemic	Fern's Ag Insider
6/17/22	Push to renew federal school meal waivers persists	Food & Environment Reporting Network
1/17/19	Raising intuitive eaters	Food & Nutrition blog
7/24/22	Another increase in USDA reimbursements for school meals	Food and Environment Reporting Network
11/20/22	On social media, universal free school lunch is popular	Food and Environment Reporting Network
3/6/22	School Nutrition Association says go slow on nutrition overhaul	Food and Environment Reporting Network
8/17/22	Flavored milk is top source of added sugar in school meals, says report	Food and Environmental Reporting Network
7/8/21	SNA survey identifies challenges for new school year	Food Management
7/28/21	High-schoolers grow 5% of district's produce	Food Management
8/5/22	SNA report outlines challenges for next school year	Food Management
8/23/22	Survey examines K-12 parent attitudes about food	Food Management
8/27/21	Staff and product shortages, delivery delays hamper fall school start	Food Management
8/26/21	Public school offers all-day foodservice	Food Management
5/11/20	School nutrition programs deal with deficits, shortfalls and an uncertain future	Food Management
5/13/20	10 questions for onsite dining in the post-COVID world	Food Management
5/20/20	The road ahead for onsite dining: Back to school for K-12	Food Management
9/27/22	White House releases national hunger, nutrition, health strategy proposal	Food Management
6/13/20	5 coronavirus things: Child nutrition programs lost $1B in last 10 weeks	Food Management
10/11/22	White House announces $50 million in foodservice equipment grants for schools	Food Management
7/7/20	Study: Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act led to significant decline in childhood obesity among children living in poverty	Food Management
10/28/22	Congress urged to expand school meal community eligibility program	Food Management
7/27/20	Planning on lunch in the classroom? Directors say you’ll have to limit your menu	Food Management
10/19/21	Shortage of nonfood items forces schools to get creative	Food Management
8/17/20	Fall K-12 menu options lean on individually wrapped grab and go	Food Management
8/17/20	Planning on lunch in the classroom? Directors say you’ll have to limit your menu	Food Management
8/26/20	USDA set to pull plug on school meal flexibilities at start of school year	Food Management
9/1/20	USDA extends summer meal flexibilities to feed kids, eases burden on school districts	Food Management
11/12/21	Cafeteria worker shortage? Try culinary arts students	Food Management
9/15/20	One On One With: Feeding K-12 students during the school year	Food Management
9/23/20	Study estimates 1.15 billion school meals missed last spring	Food Management
9/24/20	District trades breakfasts and lunches for grocery bags	Food Management