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Leonard, Rodney E. – 1969
The school lunch program has not responded to national needs: the greater the need of the child from a poor neighborhood, the less the community is able to meet it. Of about eight million children whose families cannot afford the cost of a school meal, three million receive a lunch free or at reduced cost; of the five million denied reasonable…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Financial Needs
Urban Inst., Washington, DC. – 1987
This report uses data collected during the National Evaluation of School Nutrition Project (NESNP-II) in 1983-84 to describe the characteristics of students and households eligible for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP), and the characteristics of NSLP and SBP participants and their households. The NESNP-II…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility