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Permission was extended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 in December 2020, and further by the American Rescue Plan Act, with USDA eventually allowing universal meals for the entire 2021-2022 school year. [16] The subsidies were voluntary; about 90% of U.S. school districts participated with free lunch for all students. [17]
A new New Jersey law increases income eligibility for free school lunches and breakfasts to ... fall for the beginning of the 2024-25 school year. Federal data shows that more than 342,000 kids ...
In 2021, California and Maine became the first two states to pass legislation for universal free lunches at public schools. This school year, six others joined them: Minnesota, New Mexico ...
(The Center Square) – While many states expanded and adopted school choice programs in 2024, some advocates are excited about new education options for families in 2025 – made possible because ...
The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools. [1]
The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, passed in June 2023, resolved that year's debt-ceiling crisis and set spending caps for FY2024 and FY2025. The act called for $895 billion in defense spending and $711 billion in non-defense discretionary spending for fiscal year 2025, representing a 1% increase over fiscal year 2024. [10]
As a result, the expanded funding for free school lunches was not included in the latest $1.5 trillion government spending bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11.
This compares with the School Lunch program, which helped feed 32 million children a day in 2010. [8] By FY 2018, the program would manage to provide more than 2.4 billion school breakfasts and allow 14.8 million children to receive free or reduced-price school breakfasts. [9]