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
10/20/22	US lawmakers seek soy milk option for schools	Louisiana Illuminator
4/1/21	US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults	AP News
1/30/20	US government basically declares war on millions of school children	The Hill
8/31/19	US attorney: States can't sue feds over lunch program changes	Education Dive
8/15/23	Updating school nutrition standards could save 10,600 lives per year	K-12 Dive
4/24/24	Updates to the School Nutrition Standards	USDA Food and Nutrition Service
5/11/22	Updated school nutrition standards reduced weight gain in students from low-income families, study says	FoodService Director
5/5/23	Unpaid meal debt totaled $19 million this school year	NewsNation
1/8/19	University of Minnesota study links adversity in early life to childhood obesity	MinnPost
3/12/22	Universal school meals urged at SXSW EDU, but Congress shutters the idea	K-12 Dive
2/17/23	Universal school meals improve attendance for youngest students	K-12 Dive
8/2/21	Universal school meals gain even more support	Public News Service
4/5/22	Universal school meals back on table in bipartisan Senate proposal	K-12 Dive
2/15/21	Universal school meals are the best response to food insecurity	Brattleboro Reformer
8/11/22	Universal school meal program to be on the ballot in Colorado	KUSA-TV (Denver)
4/13/23	Universal school meal legislation stalls in some states	K-12 Dive
9/19/22	Universal school lunch bill proposed in PA	Times Observer (Pennsylvania)
9/14/23	Universal free school meals keeping Massachusetts students more awake during class	Boston Herald
7/20/22	Universal free school lunch program is set to expire	The Washington Post
3/18/22	Universal free school lunch is set to expire. Some lawmakers want to keep it going.	Colorado Public Radio
5/9/21	Universal Free Lunch Program could create funding conundrum for local school district	Vail Daily
10/18/19	Universal free lunch is linked to better test scores, new report finds	Chalkbeat
8/24/22	Universal free lunch has ended: ‘Students can’t learn if they’re hungry’	Today
10/18/22	Universal free lunch for Colorado’s public school students? Voters will decide	Colorado Public Radio
11/9/22	Universal free lunch ballot measure passes easily in Colorado	NPR
5/3/22	Universal access to free meals at schools can lead to lower grocery bills and healthier food purchases	The Conversation
8/28/19	U.S. to states: School lunch changes none of your business	Reuters
11/27/18	U.S. officials say tainted romaine lettuce appears to be from California	Reuters
6/6/23	U.S. House committee approves bills on whole milk	Iowa Capital Dispatch
7/20/23	U.S. Government Accountability Office shares recommendations to improve USDA Foods in Schools	FoodService Director
6/14/22	U.S. free school meal program ends June 30 - What next?	Newsweek
6/23/23	U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide school nutrition programs additional procurement aid	FoodService Director
2/27/23	Turning K-12 'cafeterias into classrooms' to address food waste	Public News Service
1/18/20	Trump Targets Michelle Obama’s School Nutrition Guidelines on Her Birthday	The New York Times
6/25/19	Trump plan to re-calculate poverty level would affect school lunch, Head Start eligibility	Education Dive
4/4/19	Trump Administration Sued Over Rollback of School Lunch Standards	The New York Times
12/14/18	Trump Administration Further Relaxes School Lunch Rules	EdWeek Blog
10/9/20	Trump Administration Extends Free Meals for Kids for Entire School Year	USDA
10/18/19	Trump Administration Delays Cuts to Food Stamps and School Meals	The New York Times
8/28/19	Trump administration argues states have no say in healthy school lunch requirements rollback	The Hill
7/18/20	To Help Recover From COVID-19, We Need Universal Free School Meals	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
1/7/21	To Balance Budget, Districts Offer Meals For All Families Regardless of Income	The Independent News
2/19/21	Timing of food stamps can affect students’ test scores, study finds	Education Week
2/14/19	Time to eat school lunch affects elementary students' nutrient consumption (PDF)	Journal of Child Nutrition & Management
2/5/19	Thompson, Peterson Introduce Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2019	Congressman Thompson Press Release
9/16/19	This Is Why The U.S. Is Failing To Tackle Childhood Obesity	Huffington Post
12/25/18	This is what the USDA will and will not do during a government shutdown	Des Moines Register
12/18/19	This 5-year-old paid off the lunch balances for 123 students by selling cocoa and cookies	CNN
10/19/20	Thinking HACCP in a COVID-19 world	School Nutrition
8/3/23	These states are restoring free school meals for all kids, regardless of income	CNBC