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
3/18/24	Study: CEP participation tied to reduced obesity	HealthDay News
8/31/21	Study: Child obesity rates increase during pandemic	Washington Post
6/18/19	Study: Children More Likely To Gain Weight During Summer Months	WLNY-TV
7/7/20	Study: Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act led to significant decline in childhood obesity among children living in poverty	Food Management
10/25/20	Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs was rising before pandemic	Fern's Ag Insider
10/10/19	Study: Students Aren’t Getting Enough Time To Eat Lunch	CBS Philly
3/19/19	Success with Meatless Mondays depends on staff training, 'well-prepared' recipes	Education Dive
7/10/19	Successful Approaches to Reduce Sodium in School Meals Study	USDA
7/17/18	Summer feeding programs can help prime kids for a successful school year — and life	Kansas City Star
6/19/19	Summer Food Service Program 2019 Infographic	USDA
12/31/20	Summer Food Service Program; 2021 Reimbursement Rates	Federal Register
6/12/18	Summer meal programs can feed more students	KMTV-TV (Omaha)
7/13/21	Summer meal sites of "More than a Meal"	WCCO-TV
7/26/23	Summer meals program participation plummeted in 2022	K-12 Dive
12/21/22	Summer meals, funding for high-poverty schools: What the federal spending bill means for students	Chalkbeat
1/4/22	Supply chain issues hamper schools' milk deliveries	Pioneer Press
12/18/21	Supply chain making serving items, not food, scarce at schools	The Daily News
2/23/22	Supply shortage has schools improvising lunch menus	KSLTV
7/25/21	Supply-chain woes come to school cafeterias	Wall Street Journal
11/18/22	Supplying lesser school meals is unlawful, Minn. attorney general finds	Star Tribune
9/25/21	Support grows for universal school meals in Vermont	WFFF-TV
1/29/22	Supporters of universal school meals: Don’t stop now	Minot Daily News
8/23/22	Survey examines K-12 parent attitudes about food	Food Management
10/3/23	Survey highlights importance of school meal programs	Civil Eats
1/14/22	Survey looks at virus precautions in school cafeterias	Education Week
11/23/22	Survey: Secondary students warming up to school meals	K-12 Dive
9/2/22	Task force recommends universal school meal program ahead of White House conference	K-12 Dive
6/17/21	Task force seeks to make school meals more culturally inclusive	WTOP News (Washington, DC)
4/11/22	Tater tot casserole without tater tots? Rising costs stress school lunch programs.	Marketplace
4/23/23	Teacher raises more than $40,000 to cancel all student meal debt at his school	WJLA (Virginia)
12/13/18	Teachers deliver food to students on snow days	WCYB-TV
9/20/23	Teachers say students don’t have enough time to eat lunch. Here’s how to change that	Education Week
8/15/19	Team Nutrition Back-to-School Resources	USDA Team Nutrition
5/29/21	Tech on Deck	School Nutrition Magazine
11/16/18	Texas high school is providing holiday cheer for students in need	KFDA-TV
10/1/20	Texas schools seeing steep declines in number of students getting free meals	The Texas Tribune
4/25/21	Thanks to the feds, all students will eat for free again next school year	VTDigger
9/8/18	The 2018 USDA Food Insecurity Report is Bleak	Fast Company
3/4/23	The broken business of feeding America’s schoolchildren	NBC News
6/4/19	The Dairy Community Will Rally Coast to Coast This Summer to Take on Child Hunger	PR Newswire
3/22/24	The end of universal school meals hurt student meal participation	K-12 Dive
3/21/22	The fight for free universal school meals	Politico
7/22/22	The House Committee on Education and Labor releases Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill	FoodService Director
10/6/22	The next chance to improve school meal access is coming up soon	Civil Eats
6/1/21	The Pandemic Brought Universal Free School Meals. Will They Stay?	Education Week
2/12/21	The pandemic has made school lunch free for all public school students. Advocates are hoping to make the change permanent.	The Counter
1/26/21	The Pandemic Reveals Racial Gaps in School Meal Access	Civil Eats
12/5/19	The Real School Lunch Story video	School Nutrition Association
5/20/20	The road ahead for onsite dining: Back to school for K-12	Food Management
4/20/20	The scramble to feed the kids left hungry by the coronavirus crisis	Vox