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Students need more time for lunch

April 10, 2024

Via: EdSource

As a former public school kid who grew up in Southern California, I recall racing through the lunch line to quickly grab a cardboard tray and scarf down a soggy, plastic-wrapped meal in the scant time available to me. By […]


Educational Stages, Secondary Education

USDA final rule expands free meal access at high-poverty schools

September 26, 2023

Via: K-12 Dive

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement called the final rule “an important step” toward achieving President Joe Biden’s commitment to create a pathway for 9 million more students to receive free school meals by 2032. “Increasing access to […]


Educational Stages, News, Secondary Education

Students learn to sort fact from fiction as an ‘infodemic’ spreads across the US

June 3, 2020

Via: Education Dive

When Michelle Chikaonda decided to volunteer at a meal distribution site in West Philadelphia, she didn’t know she’d soon be helping teens sort through the vast mounds of information in the media about the coronavirus. But she said she had […]


Economics&Strategies, Education Economics

What does the government shutdown mean for administrators?

January 16, 2019

Via: Education Dive

Schools are fortunate during the current federal shutdown that the Department of Education is funded for now, and that schools have or will receive most of their federal funding for the current year. However, the potential impact of the loss […]


Economics&Strategies, Education Economics

Free, reduced-price meal data growing less useful as measure of student poverty

December 6, 2018

Via: Education Dive

Three years ago, the Grants Pass School District 7 in southern Oregon chose to take advantage of the National School Lunch Program’s Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), which allows schools serving low-income students to provide free meals to everyone and stop […]