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
11/11/20	Schools Are Struggling to Feed Our Kids—Here's What Parents Can Do to Help	Parents
4/15/20	Osceola School meal delivery service hums along	Osceola Sun
1/27/20	School Lunch Nutrition Becomes Political	Orlando Sentinel
3/29/23	Oregon moves toward offering universal school meals	Oregon Capital Chronicle
2/25/21	Santa Ana Unified to offer free weekend meals for children	Orange County Register
10/12/18	Hospital's Fitness and Nutrition in Schools Program puts greenhouses in schools	Ocala Star Banner
4/8/21	Elementary School holds lunch in classes	NWestIowa.com
10/24/19	How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience	NPR MindShift
7/20/19	If We All Ate Enough Fruits And Vegetables, There'd Be Big Shortages	NPR "The Salt" blog
6/12/18	Female teens, young women get less exercise than male counterparts	NPR
3/13/20	States Begin Widespread School Closures To Fight Coronavirus	NPR
3/24/20	Schools Race To Feed Students Amid Coronavirus Closures	NPR
8/25/22	As students go back to school, many face a lunch bill for the first time in 2 years	NPR
8/29/22	Maine continues free school meals even though federal program is ending	NPR
9/7/22	Hunger advocates want free school meals for all kids. It's tough sell in Congress	NPR
10/26/22	End of nationwide federal free lunch program has some states scrambling	NPR
11/1/22	Colorado voters to vote on universal free school lunches	NPR
11/1/21	Your public school kid's lunch might be served on a pizza slice box. Here's why	NPR
11/9/22	Universal free lunch ballot measure passes easily in Colorado	NPR
2/3/23	New school meal nutrition standards would limit sugar, sodium	NPR
4/10/24	Consumer Reports asks USDA to remove Lunchables from schools' lunch menus	NPR
2/2/22	Some families are being forced to choose between remote learning and school meals	NPR
2/1/22	Schools scramble to feed kids as supply chain issues persist	NPR
3/21/22	Millions of children will miss healthy school meals when pandemic relief expires	NPR
3/30/23	States are looking for ways to make free school meals permanent	NPR
3/31/23	There's no such thing as a free lunch. Vermont schools say there should be for kids	NPR
5/3/23	Schools ended universal free lunch. Now meal debt is soaring	NPR
6/16/22	School nutrition pro concerned about child poverty	NPR
6/21/22	School meal waivers expire in 9 days. After axing them, Congress may try to save them.	NPR
6/25/22	Biden signs the school meal waivers bill into law, but free meals are over for many	NPR
2/22/20	Food Fight: How 2 Trump Proposals Could Bite Into School Lunch	NPR
3/13/22	School food access at risk; leaders seek to extend USDA child nutrition programs	NorthcentralPA.com
3/20/20	Relief Grants Available to School Food Authorities	No Kid Hungry
10/1/20	The Longest Summer; Childhood Hunger in the Wake of Coronavirus	No Kid Hungry
4/20/21	USDA Extends School Meal Waivers: Good News for Students, Families, Schools	No Kid Hungry
2/10/20	New Report Shows Breakfast After the Bell Can Significantly Reduce Chronic Absenteeism	No Kid Hungry
4/22/24	Schools Nationwide Can Now Apply to Receive a Bulk Milk Grant	Newswire
5/7/20	Children are going hungry without school meals - and it doesn't have to be this way	Newsweek
11/7/22	Selfless woman pays off overdue school lunch accounts: 'Makes me cry'	Newsweek
11/22/19	Students Who Eat Breakfast Perform Better on Standardized Tests, Study Finds	Newsweek
6/14/22	U.S. free school meal program ends June 30 - What next?	Newsweek
4/27/21	Schools see increase in breakfast meals served, credits nationwide COVID-19 waivers	NewsRepublican.com
5/5/23	Unpaid meal debt totaled $19 million this school year	NewsNation
7/17/23	Schools worry about cost of providing healthy meals for kids	NewsNation
12/11/18	SD school district opens donation option on lunch platform	Newscenter 1 Rapid City
2/23/21	No child left hungry: Holmen nutrition leader pushes for permanent free school lunch	News8000.com
3/7/21	As break begins, Duval County Public Schools gives food to students who depend on in-school meals	News4JAX
9/11/21	Districts face pricier food, distribution issues	News Tribune
3/13/21	Iowa School District announces no-cost meal sites during Spring Break	News KWWL
3/12/20	Coronavirus Resources: Teaching, Learning and Thinking Critically	New York Times