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
4/25/19	These 3 tactics are helping schools tackle food insecurity	Education Dive
6/6/23	There’s kelp on the school lunch menu, and it’s more popular than you’d think	Boston Globe
3/31/23	There's no such thing as a free lunch. Vermont schools say there should be for kids	NPR
12/21/20	The wait is nearly over: Congress set to provide over $50 billion for public schools	ChalkBeat
1/23/20	The Trump Administration’s Continued Attack On The Nutrition Safety Net: At What Cost?	Health Affairs
4/12/24	The surprising connection between universal school meals and student discipline	Education Week
10/30/19	The State of Childhood Obesity	The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
4/20/20	The scramble to feed the kids left hungry by the coronavirus crisis	Vox
5/20/20	The road ahead for onsite dining: Back to school for K-12	Food Management
12/5/19	The Real School Lunch Story video	School Nutrition Association
1/26/21	The Pandemic Reveals Racial Gaps in School Meal Access	Civil Eats
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
6/1/21	The Pandemic Brought Universal Free School Meals. Will They Stay?	Education Week
10/6/22	The next chance to improve school meal access is coming up soon	Civil Eats
7/22/22	The House Committee on Education and Labor releases Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill	FoodService Director
3/21/22	The fight for free universal school meals	Politico
3/22/24	The end of universal school meals hurt student meal participation	K-12 Dive
6/4/19	The Dairy Community Will Rally Coast to Coast This Summer to Take on Child Hunger	PR Newswire
3/4/23	The broken business of feeding America’s schoolchildren	NBC News
9/8/18	The 2018 USDA Food Insecurity Report is Bleak	Fast Company
4/25/21	Thanks to the feds, all students will eat for free again next school year	VTDigger
10/1/20	Texas schools seeing steep declines in number of students getting free meals	The Texas Tribune
11/16/18	Texas high school is providing holiday cheer for students in need	KFDA-TV
5/29/21	Tech on Deck	School Nutrition Magazine
8/15/19	Team Nutrition Back-to-School Resources	USDA Team Nutrition
9/20/23	Teachers say students don’t have enough time to eat lunch. Here’s how to change that	Education Week
12/13/18	Teachers deliver food to students on snow days	WCYB-TV
4/23/23	Teacher raises more than $40,000 to cancel all student meal debt at his school	WJLA (Virginia)
4/11/22	Tater tot casserole without tater tots? Rising costs stress school lunch programs.	Marketplace
6/17/21	Task force seeks to make school meals more culturally inclusive	WTOP News (Washington, DC)
9/2/22	Task force recommends universal school meal program ahead of White House conference	K-12 Dive
11/23/22	Survey: Secondary students warming up to school meals	K-12 Dive
1/14/22	Survey looks at virus precautions in school cafeterias	Education Week
10/3/23	Survey highlights importance of school meal programs	Civil Eats
8/23/22	Survey examines K-12 parent attitudes about food	Food Management
1/29/22	Supporters of universal school meals: Don’t stop now	Minot Daily News
9/25/21	Support grows for universal school meals in Vermont	WFFF-TV
11/18/22	Supplying lesser school meals is unlawful, Minn. attorney general finds	Star Tribune
7/25/21	Supply-chain woes come to school cafeterias	Wall Street Journal
2/23/22	Supply shortage has schools improvising lunch menus	KSLTV
12/18/21	Supply chain making serving items, not food, scarce at schools	The Daily News
1/4/22	Supply chain issues hamper schools' milk deliveries	Pioneer Press
12/21/22	Summer meals, funding for high-poverty schools: What the federal spending bill means for students	Chalkbeat
7/26/23	Summer meals program participation plummeted in 2022	K-12 Dive
7/13/21	Summer meal sites of "More than a Meal"	WCCO-TV
6/12/18	Summer meal programs can feed more students	KMTV-TV (Omaha)
12/31/20	Summer Food Service Program; 2021 Reimbursement Rates	Federal Register
6/19/19	Summer Food Service Program 2019 Infographic	USDA
7/17/18	Summer feeding programs can help prime kids for a successful school year — and life	Kansas City Star
7/10/19	Successful Approaches to Reduce Sodium in School Meals Study	USDA