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WORCESTER ― Parents and students Thursday expressed concerns over the quality of school lunches, and the variety of food available, noting some students have dietary restrictions, in some cases ...
What makes school lunch so contentious, though, isn’t just the question of what kids eat, but of which kids are doing the eating. As Poppendieck recounts in her book, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, the original program provided schools with food and, later, cash to subsidize the cost of meals.
A 2011 article in the Journal of Econometrics, "The impact of the National School Lunch Program on child health: A nonparametric bounds analysis", affirmed the nutritional advantages of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act but found that "children in households reporting the receipt of free or reduced-price school meals through the National School ...
Eligible families would have received $120 per child for the three summer months. Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families Skip to main content
Only 41 to 44 of Wake’s 198 schools are eligible for a federal program this fall that will allow every student to get free school breakfasts and lunches. School meal programs are required by ...
During the school year a large number of children in the United States receive free and reduced-lunches through their school lunch programs. However, when the school year ends food insecurity becomes prevalent amongst school-aged children. The Summer Food Service Program helps alleviate the nutritional gap and makes meals accessible to all ...
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make significant changes to the school lunch program for the first time in over 30 years. [4] In addition to funding standard child nutrition and school lunch programs, there are several new nutritional standards in the bill. The main aspects are listed below. [1]
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