Tag: school meal

October 11, 2023

California is the first state to mandate the latest recommended school meal nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of SB 348 on Sunday. Effective Jan. 1, the law will set nutrition standards to […]

July 6, 2023

In the 2022-23 school years, universal school meal waivers were no longer available, having ended — much to the consternation of child hunger advocates — in fall 2022 as the pandemic waned. Although operational flexibilities were available to address other […]

September 2, 2022

The Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health — formed by an independent group of professors, advocates and food industry executives — recently advised the White House to bring back universal school meals. The task force released this guidance in […]

June 3, 2022

The USDA’s announcement to fund innovative school meal programs comes as its authority to grant pandemic era waivers, which include universal school meals, is set to expire June 30. Meanwhile, Vermont became the latest state to sign off on using […]

April 26, 2022

The summer of 2022 brings changes to school meal requirements for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, as school nutrition programs transition from pandemic-era flexibilities—such as loosened restrictions around food preparation and packaging—back to pre-pandemic requirements. […]

April 20, 2022

Universal school meal advocates said momentum is growing for these statewide efforts this year as the June 30 deadline nears for Congress to extend the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s waiver authority to keep universal meals in place. One bipartisan Senate […]

January 12, 2022

Some solutions include balancing the supply chain and providing emergency funding to help school meal programs return to a profitable model, said Elizabeth Campbell, a registered dietitian and senior director of legislative and government affairs for the Academy of Nutrition […]

July 23, 2019

School meal debt is a growing problem, with 76% of districts reporting they have outstanding debt, according to the School Nutrition Association’s 2016 operation’s report. More recent numbers show school lunch debt climbed from a median of $2,000 to $2,500 […]

September 21, 2018

This study adds to the growing body of research related to the potential benefits of offering free meals to all students at a school. The Community Eligibility Provision was initiated to help eliminate the shame associated with receiving free meals […]