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
7/12/22	School nutrition pros, vendors gather at SNA conference	WOLF-TV (Orlando)
7/8/22	Students make the most honest school lunch taste testers	Wall Street Journal
7/7/22	As school lunch waivers expire, school officials encourage more applications	Yahoo News
7/7/22	Families worried about school lunch prices as inflation soars	KRMG
7/1/22	USDA to give school nutrition programs close to $1B in procurement aid	FoodService Director
6/30/22	School lunches aren't free to everyone anymore. Some advocates think they should be.	Marketplace.org
6/30/22	USDA allocates $943M to help schools buy local foods	The Packer
6/29/22	Schools make difficult decision about meal prices	WCNC-TV
6/27/22	Families brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals	The Associated Press
6/25/22	Biden signs the school meal waivers bill into law, but free meals are over for many	NPR
6/24/22	Congress extends pandemic school lunch waivers, though not all kids will benefit	CNN
6/22/22	Lawmakers reach bipartisan deal on free school meal funding - with some changes	Detroit Free Press
6/21/22	School meal waivers expire in 9 days. After axing them, Congress may try to save them.	NPR
6/19/22	Analysis: Summer meal participation could decline	CNN
6/18/22	Free school lunches for all set to end, creating ‘perfect storm’ amid high inflation	MSN
6/17/22	Push to renew federal school meal waivers persists	Food & Environment Reporting Network
6/17/22	Don't take lunch from America's students	The Washington Post
6/16/22	School nutrition pro concerned about child poverty	NPR
6/15/22	Are expiring school meal waivers a looming catastrophe?	Civil Eats
6/14/22	U.S. free school meal program ends June 30 - What next?	Newsweek
6/8/22	Schools may get USDA funding to buy US commodities	Politico
6/7/22	For millions of students, a school lunch crisis might be impending	Bon Appetit
6/7/22	School children at risk of losing free universal lunch	MSNBC
6/6/22	Hunger 'cliff' looms as pandemic school lunch aid is running out	Bloomberg Law
6/6/22	Pandemic rules for school lunch program expiring	Marketplace
6/6/22	Schools to raise meal prices as food costs increase	The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Marion, Iowa)
6/1/22	Vermont funds statewide universal school meal program	Bennington Banner
5/31/22	Some states want to lock in universal free school meals as federal waivers end	Education Week
5/26/22	School nutrition pros face "dire" supply chain woes	U.S. News & World Report
5/24/22	Inflation hits the lunch line: How higher costs and supply chain issues are affecting school lunches	CBS News
5/20/22	School nutrition directors prepare for next academic year with and without universal meals	K-12 Dive
5/19/22	New law requires Illinois schools to offer a plant-based lunch alternative to students	FoodService Director
5/17/22	Pandemic EBT: A vital tool to reduce childhood hunger this summer	Food Research & Action Center
5/17/22	Equity in the lunchroom: Minnesota coalition pushes to keep school meals free for all students once federal aid expires	KARE 11
5/16/22	School lunch menus are changing from bland to culturally appropriate	Lohud
5/13/22	Ed Dept offers 18-month extension requests for ARP spending	K-12 Dive
5/11/22	Updated school nutrition standards reduced weight gain in students from low-income families, study says	FoodService Director
5/10/22	High school nutrition team hires students to combat staffing challenges	FoodService Director
5/7/22	'I worry about what happens next year:' Federal waivers that decreased childhood hunger end soon	The Chronicle (Ohio)
5/6/22	Senator seeks to add meal waiver extension to COVID-19 bill	Roll Call
5/5/22	USDA releases updated nondiscrimination statement guidance	National CACFP Sponsors Organization
5/3/22	Universal access to free meals at schools can lead to lower grocery bills and healthier food purchases	The Conversation
5/3/22	'Everything is going up' — School kitchens feeling pinch of rising food prices	Lincoln Journal Star
5/2/22	USDA: States can still apply for limited school nutrition waivers	K-12 Dive
4/29/22	Districts get ready to celebrate school nutrition professionals on National School Lunch Hero Day	FoodService Director
4/28/22	As child nutrition waivers near expiration, 2 states take steps to provide universal school meals	FoodService Director
4/26/22	3 strategies to address new school nutrition standards	eSchool News
4/25/22	District sees spike in meal participation via waivers	Reporter-Times (Martinsville, Ind)
4/21/22	School districts push Congress to extend free meals for students	WFMJ-TV (Youngstown, OH)
4/20/22	State legislatures propose universal school meals	K-12 Dive