It’s been over a year since the state agreed to pay for breakfast and lunch in all public schools, feeding thousands of ...

Families purchased more school lunches and breakfasts the year after the federal government toughened nutritional standards ...

Opinion: A tsunami of low-quality food into the American diet has been a disaster for kids' health. Let's put real food back ...

Mayor Whitmire's daughter chaired Kids Meals annual Harvest Luncheon where ExxonMobil's $3 million gift toward the Building ...

The big picture: Families qualifying for free or reduced lunch can end up paying 10 times the allowable amount for meals ...

The policy, announced by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Nov. 1 , aims to lower costs for those who make roughly ...

The USDA announced students eligible for free or reduced-price school meals cannot be charged processing fees starting in ...

The USDA set a rule banning schools from charging processing fees on school lunch accounts for low-income families. The rule is set to take effect in 2027.

National School Lunch Week (Oct. 14-18) is supposed to celebrate the benefits of healthy school meals. But sadly, there's very little to celebrate, in my view. In 2023, the National School Lunch ...

The lunches are free, but how can schools get even more kids to eat school meals, how healthy are these meals, and what do schools do with excess food? “It’s extremely important to allow kids ...