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The School Breakfast Program (SBP) is a federally funded meal program that provides free and reduced cost breakfasts to children at public and private schools, and child care facilities in the United States. [1] All children in participating schools and residential institutions are eligible for a federally subsidized meal, regardless of family ...
For the 2021-2022 school year, all students were eligible to receive free school lunch and breakfast, regardless of their family's income. This policy was instituted in 2020 during the pandemic and...
The bill, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, created the federally subsidized School Breakfast Program (SBP), which supplemented the existing lunch program by providing low-cost or free breakfasts to students at public and nonprofit private schools. It also created the Summer Food Service Program and established National School Lunch Week.
Nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and National School Breakfast Program were updated in 2012. [10] This update in nutritional standards was funded through a federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama; The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 funds free lunch programs in public schools for the next five ...
Link2Feed used USDA data to explore the history and scale of the school breakfast program. The U.S. served a record 2.5 billion meals to kids in 2022.
The Austin Independent School District is providing free breakfast and lunch for all students at 77 schools through the federally funded Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program.
The Act was created as a result of the "years of cumulative successful experience under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to help meet the nutritional needs of children." The National School Lunch Program feeds 30.5 million children per day (as of 2007). NSLP was operated in over 101,000 public and nonprofit private schools in 2007. [1]
In FY 2011, federal spending totaled $10.1 billion for the National School Lunch Program. [3] The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. [4]