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Download full textStephanie Oudghiri – Rural Educator, 2024
As roughly 7.3 million students in rural school districts head back to school this fall, they remain largely unaware that the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) is due to expire on September 30, 2024 (Hartman et al., 2023). Enacted on December 20, 2018, and temporarily renewed in September 2023, this critical piece of legislation…
Descriptors: Food, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Nutrition
Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024
This report illustrates the statewide implementation and effectiveness of school breakfast in Ohio. In the 2024-2025 school year, approximately 94% of Ohio schools with USDA nutrition programs serve breakfast. In the 2023-2024 school year, 27.2% of enrolled children participated in the School Breakfast Program and 54.5% participated in the…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, State Programs
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The federal government has prescribed nutritional requirements for school meals since the authorization of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in 1946. Such requirements have changed throughout the course of history. Current law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe "minimum nutritional requirements" based on…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Free school meal access has become increasingly intertwined with federal social safety net programs--including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--to reduce duplicative paperwork for schools. The changes to SNAP that House Republicans have proposed would have downstream effects on free school meal access. The proposed changes to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Political Attitudes, Eligibility
Kelly Patlan; Beth Boulay; Meaghan Glenn; Kelly Lack; Lauren Frey; Zachary Epstein; Anna Robinson; Eleanor Elmudesi; Georgia Rawhouser-Mylet; Gabriela Antonova; Lauren Olsho – US Department of Agriculture, 2024
A program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), Team Nutrition Training Grants have two objectives: to develop the knowledge and skills of School Nutrition Managers such that they are able (1) to assist students participating in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program in making…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Grants, Nutrition Instruction, Lunch Programs
Liana Washburn; Veronica Severn; Brett Eiffes; Myah Scott; Sophia Navarro; Kevin Conway – US Department of Agriculture, 2025
This report summarizes findings from the School Meals Operations Study (SMO), part of an ongoing series to assess school meal operations on a school year (SY) basis. This volume of the study covers July 2021 through the end of September 2022 and includes SY 2021-2022. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, the Families First Coronavirus…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
House Republicans have passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which now goes to the Senate for consideration. The goal is to pass the bill by July, though final content and timeline are subject to change. The bill puts forth several changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aimed at reducing federal spending…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Lunch Programs
Saied Toossi; Jessica E. Todd; Joanne Guthrie; Mike Ollinger – US Department of Agriculture, 2024
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation's second-largest food and nutrition assistance program, providing billions of meals to tens of millions of children and adolescents each year. USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) periodically reports on NSLP policies and program operations, often after major changes to the program's rules…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Federal Programs, Summer Programs, After School Programs
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2024
Since 1997, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) has published the Newark Kids Count Data Book, a one-stop source for child well-being data on the state's largest city. Newark Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five-year trend data, in the following areas: demographics, family economic security, child health, child…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Population Trends, Racial Differences
