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
6/25/19	Trump plan to re-calculate poverty level would affect school lunch, Head Start eligibility	Education Dive
8/31/19	US attorney: States can't sue feds over lunch program changes	Education Dive
10/25/19	Report: Afterschool Nutrition Program shows significant expansion, but needs more funding	Education Dive
2/15/20	FRAC report finds 12.4M students received free and reduced-price breakfasts last year	Education Dive
5/21/20	Health Experts Say Schools Can Reopen in the Fall — But With Some Big Changes	EdSurge
10/18/21	Districts tap federal funds to pay for free school meals	EdSurge
9/16/20	What Should Recess — and Play — Look Like in a Socially Distanced World?	EdSurge
4/8/21	California moving to pioneer free meals for all students	EdSource
4/18/22	Behind the lunch tray: A look at how school meals are funded	EDNC
1/5/24	California families to benefit from new federal summer nutrition program	Ed Source
11/21/23	As milk carton shortage affects students, Sen. Schumer calls for investigation	Ed Source
3/30/24	Are Idaho’s famous potatoes vegetables or … grains?! Senators take a stand in food debate	East Idaho News
4/2/22	Proposal to continue free in-school breakfast and lunch advances in Minnesota House	Duluth News Tribune
11/1/22	2012 nutrition standards change increased fruits and vegetables in school meals	DRG News
11/15/18	Minnesota district receives more food and supplies for significantly less effort	District Administration
11/23/18	A financial feast for K12 schools; How districts can save money and boost nutrition through cooperative purchasing	District Administration
3/12/19	School lunch nutrition finds new flavors	District Administration
10/25/20	How schools can build physical activity into classroom instruction	District Administration
6/22/22	Lawmakers reach bipartisan deal on free school meal funding - with some changes	Detroit Free Press
6/21/23	School lunch debt rocketed this year in Michigan schools. But proposal could change that	Detroit Free Press
12/25/18	This is what the USDA will and will not do during a government shutdown	Des Moines Register
5/15/21	Ask Amy: “Lunch Ladies” serve extra portions of kindness	Denver Post
2/7/23	USDA proposal could limit flavored milk in schools	Dairy Reporter
12/11/23	Legislation would expand milk choices in schools	Dairy Reporter
10/14/20	School cafeteria debt dropped dramatically in recent months	Daily Times Chronicle
11/7/21	Lunch Crunch: Supply chain issues, labor shortages lead to school lunch disruptions	Daily Journal
12/31/22	Parents advocate for longer elementary lunches	Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
1/24/24	Connecticut advocates seek funding for free school meals	CT Public Radio
1/28/20	Pilot program to track how food security affects education	Crain's Detroit Business
10/18/19	5 reasons to encourage your child to eat school lunch	Coronado Eagle-Journal
6/23/21	Longer lunch periods could improve nutrition	Contemporary Pediatrics
12/19/18	Nutrition programs in schools found to reduce obesity; The study focuses on programs that were rolled out in several middle schools	Consumer Affairs
9/25/19	Current obesity rates linked to dietary habits from decades ago; What consumers eat as children can predict how their diet will develop as adults	Consumer Affairs
2/14/23	CT governor signs legislation extending state's free school lunch program	Connecticut Public Radio
2/5/19	Thompson, Peterson Introduce Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2019	Congressman Thompson Press Release
11/5/21	School meal items in short supply	Concord Monitor
2/22/24	Colorado’s free school meal program feeding more students than expected, creating a big gap in funding	Colorado Public Radio News
3/5/24	Locally produced food and better paid cafeteria workers delayed as Colorado scrambles to pay for free school lunch program	Colorado Public Radio News
9/21/21	Shift to free school meals could affect funding	Colorado Public Radio
10/18/22	Universal free lunch for Colorado’s public school students? Voters will decide	Colorado Public Radio
3/18/22	Universal free school lunch is set to expire. Some lawmakers want to keep it going.	Colorado Public Radio
4/23/23	A pandemic experiment in universal free school meals gains traction in the states	Colorado Newsline
9/20/20	4 things our nation should do to feed hungry students so they can learn	CNN Opinion
3/2/20	How US schools are preparing for the coronavirus	CNN
3/14/20	With coronavirus closing schools, here's how you can help food insecure children	CNN
9/10/22	Next stress for many parents: First school lunch bills since 2020	CNN
9/29/21	USDA sends schools $1.5 billion to relieve student lunch crunch	CNN
10/29/21	Schools go to "great lengths" to serve healthy meals	CNN
8/26/20	Millions of children threatened by hunger need Congress to come together	CNN
3/13/19	New York public schools to have 'Meatless Mondays' starting this fall	CNN