This report includes testimony and information with regard to: the National School Lunch Act and the supplemental feeding program for women, infants and children (WIC) in Vermont; and school lunch and WIC programs in Oklahoma. Remarks by Vermont and Oklahoma nutrition experts and WIC participants are recorded. Comments made by members of the…

Details of recent federal regulations regarding child nutrition programs and ways that associations in the educational community can provide leadership and technical assistance in the direction of child nutrition programs. (Author/MLF)

This pamphlet contains the text of, and hearings on, a bill to establish a program of nutrition education for children as a part of the national school lunch and child nutrition programs. The bill also amends the National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Acts for purposes related to strengthening the existing child nutrition programs. (JF)

State School Food Service Directors were sent telegram questionnaires on January 23, 1975, by the above Senate committee. The purpose of the questionnaire was (1) to determine the most pressing problems facing those who have responsibility for administering the School Lunch and Breakfast Programs; and (2) to gather recommendations for…

The National School Lunch Program is designed to safeguard schoolchild health by improving and/or maintaining levels of nutrition, and strengthen the agricultural economy by stimulating food demand. The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined whether the program is meeting its legislative objectives and analyzed available information on what is…

This publication reports the considerations of a subcommittee to which was referred H.R. Bill 1139 to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 in order to extend and revise the food service program. The bill would extend through 1982 three child nutrition programs whose authorizations are expiring at the end of…

These hearings before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs focused on ways to provide adequate nutrition to millions of children attending schools not participating in the National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs. Testimony was heard from the following witnesses: Mr. Sam Winer, past president, U.S. Jaycees; Mr. Robert…

Prepared for joint hearings on the impact of the proposed budget cuts on programs affecting children, these background materials describe the main programs which serve children in five general areas. These areas are health services for mothers and children, child nutrition programs, aid to families with dependent children, day care and other child…

Presentations and prepared statements, letters, and supplemental material recorded at 15 Congressional hearings are contained in this document. The purpose of the hearings was to review the school lunch and school breakfast programs and see that these programs function as Congress intended. Statements are recorded from school principals, nurses,…

Problems facing vocational education and child nutrition programs if proposed funding cuts take effect were detailed by vocational educators and nutrition specialists at a regional hearing of the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education in Ashland, Kentucky, March 13, and Lexington,…

Testimony is given in this report from two hearings concerning reauthorization of the nonentitlement child nutrition programs: the Women, Infants, and Children Feeding Program; the Summer Food Service Program; Nutrition Education and Training (NET); State Administrative Expenses, and authority for section 32 commodities. At the March 12, 1984…