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
10/6/20	One On One: School Nutrition Association’s president on turning foodservice heroes into advocates	Food Management
10/8/20	New study finds link between food insecurity, unengaged distance learners	KSAT-TV
10/9/20	Trump Administration Extends Free Meals for Kids for Entire School Year	USDA
10/12/20	Millions of students struggle with hunger	CBS News
10/14/20	Distance learning leaves officials struggling with how to feed students	CBS News
10/14/20	School cafeteria debt dropped dramatically in recent months	Daily Times Chronicle
10/15/20	SNA Survey Finds School Meal Programs' Financial Losses Mount	School Nutrition Association
10/19/20	CDC: Nearly 20% of U.S. Kids Don't Get Breakfast	MedPage Today
10/19/20	Thinking HACCP in a COVID-19 world	School Nutrition
10/19/20	Stretching your budget with USDA Foods	School Nutrition Magazine
10/19/20	Please, take the meals. Tips for explaining the complexities of school nutrition funding to parents.	School Nutrition Magazine
10/25/20	Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs was rising before pandemic	Fern's Ag Insider
10/25/20	Oakland Unified School District navigates school meal participation challenges	Food Management
10/25/20	How schools can build physical activity into classroom instruction	District Administration
10/30/20	Are ‘Kidfluencers’ Making Our Kids Fat?	New York Times
10/30/20	Districts Anxious About Plunge in Meal-Program Applicants	Education Week
10/30/20	My students are up against COVID-19, economic despair, online learning and heedless adults	USA Today
11/5/20	School meal programs require new calculations in the pandemic	Star Tribune
11/11/20	Schools Are Struggling to Feed Our Kids—Here's What Parents Can Do to Help	Parents
11/11/20	What's for lunch? Students learn about voting in mock election	KEYC-TV
11/11/20	School Closures During COVID-19: Opportunitiesfor Innovation in Meal Service	American Journal of Public Health
11/12/20	Not Enough to Eat: COVID-19 Deepens America’s Hunger Crisis	Food Research & Action Council
11/16/20	Helping Children With Anxiety in the Pandemic	New York Times
11/23/20	Hungry at Thanksgiving: A Fall 2020 update on food insecurity in the U.S.	Brookings Institute
12/1/20	How schools are navigating meal logistics during pandemic	K-12 Dive
12/1/20	Schools find new ways to deliver free lunches during pandemic	Marketplace
12/3/20	A mindfulness expert's tips for helping kids find calm	Star Tribune
12/3/20	5 mood-boosting foods that may make you happier, according to a dietitian	Insider
12/6/20	Cut off: School closings leave rural students isolated	Associated Press
12/6/20	Advocates say hunger, food anxiety grow during pandemic	The Washington Times
12/7/20	Coronavirus means school food is free across the U.S. What if it stayed that way?	The Hechinger Report
12/8/20	Grocery kits are the 'secret sauce' to feed kids	WJLA-TV
12/9/20	Departing Trump administration wants to weaken nutrition rules for school meals	Philadelphia Inquirer
12/9/20	Maryland district flooded with meal-kit orders in first day	Herald-Mail
12/9/20	Arkansas district extends free meal program for a week during winter break	KTVE-TV
12/10/20	New Mexico district to provide meals for holiday break	Valencia County News-Bulletin
12/13/20	Schools as community partners	WRAL-TV
12/14/20	How schools plan to keep meals cooking amid colder weather, strained budgets	K-12 Dive
12/15/20	Vilsack chosen as Biden's Agriculture Secretary	Politico
12/20/20	California district gives out nearly 35,000 meals to students for winter break	The Daily Press
12/21/20	Educators, Students and Schools Come Up Short in Coronavirus Relief Package	US News & World Report
12/21/20	The wait is nearly over: Congress set to provide over $50 billion for public schools	ChalkBeat
12/22/20	SNA Welcomes School Meal Program Relief Funds	School Nutrition Association
12/23/20	Stimulus bill includes funds to offset child nutrition program losses	Food Management
12/23/20	Connecticut District distributes 63,000 meals for winter break	Record-Journal
12/23/20	Why a Minnesota school district kicked a la carte to the curb	Food Management
12/29/20	Schools lunch program adapts to changing education schedules	Foxboro Reporter
12/30/20	Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary, Stares Down a Long To-Do List	US News
12/31/20	Summer Food Service Program; 2021 Reimbursement Rates	Federal Register
1/3/21	When teachers brought free lunch to kids amid COVID-19, they saw poverty up close	USA Today