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
6/5/19	State of Obesity School Meals and Snacks	The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
10/30/19	The State of Childhood Obesity	The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
5/6/20	School meals remain a lifeline for many	The Salem News
3/12/20	Utah prepares to keep providing meals to students in need if coronavirus causes school closures	The Salt Lake Tribune
3/11/20	How to talk to kids about the novel coronavirus	The Seattle Times
4/18/22	High school to convert cafeteria waste into compost for sale	The Sun Chronicle
10/1/20	Texas schools seeing steep declines in number of students getting free meals	The Texas Tribune
5/28/23	School lunch officials fear that new USDA regulations will cripple their cafeterias	The Times of Northwest Indiana
4/5/19	School cafeteria workers are making meal kits for students in need	The Today Show
9/25/19	Parents outraged by viral photo of student's 'pathetic' school lunch	The Today Show
6/29/21	School meal sites included in Google food support tool	The Verge
11/8/18	Students lunch with veterans	The Vindicator
8/14/22	Schools continue to report higher food prices	The Wall Street Journal
11/2/22	Inflation hits school lunches as districts cut menu items and raise meal prices	The Wall Street Journal
4/1/19	Lunch at 9 a.m.? That’s when a lot of schools start serving it to kids.	The Washginton Post
7/20/22	Universal free school lunch program is set to expire	The Washington Post
11/24/21	School nutrition pros maintain scratch-made meals	The Washington Post
1/14/22	Former NFL lineman now cooks at his kids' school cafeteria	The Washington Post
1/11/23	Schools are swamped by unpaid lunch debt, nutrition group says	The Washington Post
1/19/22	As omicron surges, the majority of states have not applied for a key food assistance program for American students	The Washington Post
6/10/19	Why is the USDA downplaying good news about this Obama-era school nutrition program?	The Washington Post
2/11/23	A teacher plans to pay off every student's meal debt at his school	The Washington Post
3/16/23	Lunchables in school cafeterias have child nutrition experts concerned	The Washington Post
3/7/22	Pandemic expansion of school lunch program appears slated to end	The Washington Post
10/30/19	School lunches have become more nutritious despite challenges, a look at eight elementary schools shows	The Washington Post
9/27/23	In a government shutdown, here are the nutrition programs affected	The Washington Post
6/17/22	Don't take lunch from America's students	The Washington Post
12/6/20	Advocates say hunger, food anxiety grow during pandemic	The Washington Times
9/19/19	INTERVIEW-From fine dining to $1 school lunches - the top chef trying to change how Americans eat	Thomson Reuters Foundation
12/12/19	How Nutritious School Lunches Can Lead to Improved Health and Academic Outcomes	Thrive Global
8/15/22	Schools consider options as food costs rise	TIME
4/6/22	'A crisis point.' Schools are fighting to extend a meal program that keeps millions of kids fed	TIME
4/15/20	School meal programs press on amid coronavirus closings	Times Herald
9/19/22	Universal school lunch bill proposed in PA	Times Observer (Pennsylvania)
6/23/23	School lunches no longer linked to childhood obesity, according to new study	Times Union
6/2/21	Public Schools adds delivery to summer meal program	TMJ4.com
8/24/22	Universal free lunch has ended: ‘Students can’t learn if they’re hungry’	Today
10/1/21	Schools respond to supply chain disruptions	Today
10/2/23	'They would take away the food': The shame of school lunch debt for one former student	Today
6/14/19	Nutritionist shares advice for raising a picky eater: 5 rules to follow at mealtimes	Today Show
6/13/21	Pandemic wreaks havoc on school food service, transportation budgets	Triblive.com
7/16/20	Beyond School Walls: How Federal, State and Local Entities are Adapting Policies to Ensure Student Access to Healthy Meals During the COVID-19 Pandemic	Trust For America's Health
8/1/23	Massachusetts to become 8th state to make universal free school meals permanent	Truthout
12/7/21	Meal-ingredient costs increase in district	Turlock Journal
5/26/22	School nutrition pros face "dire" supply chain woes	U.S. News & World Report
11/15/18	At School Lunch, Healthier Options are Overlooked When Juice is Available	UConn Today
3/22/22	Schools will soon stop serving free lunch to all students: What comes next?	UConn Today
5/25/20	Another voice: The kids are not OK	Ukiah Daily Journal
7/29/20	School lunch program changes improved children's diets	UPI
12/6/19	CDC: Schools aren't doing enough to teach kids about nutrition	UPI