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
3/19/19	Success with Meatless Mondays depends on staff training, 'well-prepared' recipes	Education Dive
10/10/19	Study: Students Aren’t Getting Enough Time To Eat Lunch	CBS Philly
10/25/20	Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs was rising before pandemic	Fern's Ag Insider
7/7/20	Study: Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act led to significant decline in childhood obesity among children living in poverty	Food Management
6/18/19	Study: Children More Likely To Gain Weight During Summer Months	WLNY-TV
8/31/21	Study: Child obesity rates increase during pandemic	Washington Post
3/18/24	Study: CEP participation tied to reduced obesity	HealthDay News
7/27/23	Study to consider effect of school meals on mental health	KNWA-TV/KFTA-TV (Fayetteville, Ark)
5/1/19	Study Shows Children More Likely To Face Hunger Than Overall Population Across America	Feeding America via PR Newswire and Yahoo
4/15/24	Study says parent perceptions of school meals influence student participation in school meal programs	Elsevier
2/25/20	Study finds healthiness of school meals improved with the implementation of Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act regulations	Food Management
9/23/20	Study estimates 1.15 billion school meals missed last spring	Food Management
11/22/19	Students Who Eat Breakfast Perform Better on Standardized Tests, Study Finds	Newsweek
3/17/20	Students to pick up 1-week supply of meals at bus stop each week of school closure	Fox 9
1/28/22	Students successfully lobby for strawberry milk	SeacoastOnline
12/20/21	Students receive extra food for holiday bank	WTIC-TV
9/13/21	Students rave about school meals	WJTV-TV (Jackson, Miss.)
10/3/22	Students missing out on school meals because of cost	Wisconsin Public Radio
7/8/22	Students make the most honest school lunch taste testers	Wall Street Journal
11/8/18	Students lunch with veterans	The Vindicator
7/31/23	Students lobby for more plant-based school meal options	Food Navigator
10/19/21	Students help make choices on school food	KLTV-TV
2/6/20	Students do better when they have time to eat and play	Anchorage Daily News
4/18/23	Students are struggling with school lunch debt	Prism Reports
2/8/22	Student spurs solution to long lunch lines	The Press Democrat
10/31/22	Student school meal debt is ballooning in many districts. Here’s why	Education Week
7/6/23	Student participation in school meal program dips after universal meals end	K-12 Dive
1/14/23	Student lunch debt skyrocketing across country	CBS News
12/2/22	Student lunch debt is expected to rise. TikTokers to the rescue?	EdWeek
8/5/21	Student garden club teaches about food, nutrition	KKCO-TV
10/19/20	Stretching your budget with USDA Foods	School Nutrition Magazine
12/23/20	Stimulus bill includes funds to offset child nutrition program losses	Food Management
9/22/23	States want to put more local food on school lunch trays. What does that mean, exactly?	Modern Farmer
12/31/22	States put free school meals on the menu	Politico
1/2/24	States opt out of Summer EBT program	FoodService Director
1/9/23	States eye universal school meals ahead of legislative sessions	K-12 Dive
3/13/20	States Begin Widespread School Closures To Fight Coronavirus	NPR
3/30/23	States are looking for ways to make free school meals permanent	NPR
5/31/23	States are fighting to bring back free school meals	Civil Eats
9/2/21	State school nutrition programs get $10M in federal COVID funds to attract, retain staff	WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)
6/5/19	State of Obesity School Meals and Snacks	The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
12/16/21	State looks to farmers to fill supply chain gap in school cafeterias	UpNorthNews
4/20/22	State legislatures propose universal school meals	K-12 Dive
7/7/20	Stark racial disparities emerge as families struggle to get enough food	Politico
2/26/21	Stanly County Schools to provide meal bundles during Spring Break	Stanly News and Press
8/27/21	Staff and product shortages, delivery delays hamper fall school start	Food Management
3/10/22	Special meals mark National School Breakfast Week	WTIC-TV (Hartford, Conn.)
8/20/23	South Dakota rejects federal food funding despite 25,000 children going hungry	South Dakota News Watch
11/21/22	Something fishy — or not fishy enough? — in school lunches	K-12 Dive
5/31/22	Some states want to lock in universal free school meals as federal waivers end	Education Week