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Download full textKathryn Larin – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
The school meal programs provide nutritious meals to millions of students each day. In fiscal year 2023, federal spending for these programs was $21 billion. It is unclear how many charter schools participate in these programs or what factors can affect their participation. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review charter…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Charter Schools, Participation
Direct linkSchirm, Allen, Ed.; Kirkendall, Nancy, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of schoolchildren each day. To qualify their children each year for free or…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, School Districts, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
Peer reviewedAnderson, Laura M.; Aycock, Katherine E.; Mihalic, Caitlin A.; Kozlowski, Darcie J.; Detschner, Angela M. – Journal of School Nursing, 2013
The school environment is an ideal setting for healthy weight programming with adolescents. The federal government has reinforced the importance of school-based health promotion. The current study examined the preliminary influence of the 2006 school wellness policy requirement of the "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act"…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Body Composition, Adolescents, Health Promotion
Wauchope, Barbara; Shattuck, Anne – Carsey Institute, 2010
This brief, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, examines how rural families use four of the major federal child nutrition programs. It finds that 29 percent of rural families with children participate but that there are barriers to these nutrition programs, such as the lack of public transportation and high operating costs for rural schools…
Descriptors: Transportation, Nutrition, Rural Schools, Federal Programs
Bell, Loren; Kenyon, Anne; Heinrich, Todd; Zullo, Dea – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
This report is a followup to an initiative to establish a central website to collect data from States on the National School Lunch and the School Breakfast Programs. A central website could be used by researchers and program administrators to compare and analyze data across State and local areas for participation trends in local school district…
Descriptors: Food, Data Collection, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
Cohen, Rhoda; KewalRamani, Angelina; Nogales, Renee; Ohls, James; Sinclair, Michael – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
This report describes research that Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) has conducted for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), to develop methods to track the use of "competitive foods" in schools over time. Competitive foods are foods from a la carte cafeteria sales, vending machines, school stores,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Food Standards, Lunch Programs
