The article focuses on the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) which offers free or reduced-cost meals to more than 29 million children in the U.S. in more than 100,000 public and private schools. However, it is not clear that these programs are really giving nutritionally well-balanced ...
Summer is coming to a close and the new school year is just weeks away so as you get ready for school shopping, don't forget to make sure your kids meals are taken care of. The Texas Department of Agriculture has opened applications for free and reduced-price meals for the 2023-24 ...
Newtown Public Schools will extend its free and reduced lunch program into January, as approved by the Board of Education at its November 1 meeting. As presented by Superintendent of Schools Chris Melillo at the school board’s October 19 meeting, federal funding that supports the district’s fr...
Families may apply for free or reduced price meals or free milk for their children for this school year according to guidelines effective July 1, 2018. Depending upon a family’s circumstances, there are varying ways to gain access to the programs. To learn more about the programs, fa...
To address the self-selection bias issue, we employed a strategy to evaluate the impact of the NSLP by comparing changes in food insufficiency rates between nonsummer and summer months for households with children that receive free or reduced-price lunch. When all other factors are fixed, this ...
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In recent weeks, school districts likeFort Worth ISD,Arlington ISD,Allen ISDandRichardson ISDposted notices telling parents that they must apply for free and reduced cost meals. Dr. Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of the non-profit Children at Risk, says that if children do not g...
In a high-cost-of-living state such as Connecticut, the federal income guidelines for free and reduced-price meals are nowhere near sufficient to meet the needs of families struggling to pay rapidly increasing rent, healthcare costs, childcare expenses, utilities, food, and other basic ...
Under the new law, all kindergarten through 12th grade public schools must provide two free meals – breakfast and lunch – during each school day to students requesting a meal, regardless of the student's free or reduced-price meal eligibility. The state already had a free or reduced-meal ...
Kristin Robbins, of Maple Grove, said at the briefing that low-income students who need free meals were already getting them through the federal free and reduced-price lunch program. She called the state's program a " free lunch to all the wealthy families." In...