Tag: free and reduced-price meals
Would a popular free meal program suffer with Trump?
A trade magazine wonders how the community eligibility program will function after the new administration enters the White House.
Lunchables are out. What about influencer foods?
The maker of the Lunchables packaged meals has decided not to serve the meal kits it created for US schools.
Harris picks a former high school teacher for V.P.
VP Kamala Harris made her choice for a running mate weeks before the Democratic Convention: Minn. Gov. Tim Walz.
Free summer meals available to schoolchildren
Free summer meals are generally available to all students under 18 because of a federal program that provides them in various ways.
Pandemic-era free lunch for all program set to end
A federal program that provided free school meals to all public school students will expire on Sept. 30, reverting the rules to those before the pandemic.
Santas, some secret, pay off student meal balances
A growing holiday tradition is to give schools money to help them pay off past-due student lunch bills.
School meals linked to higher obesity risk
School meals may be making kids obese, a new study out of Virginia Tech concludes. Just when we thought school food was tasty and good!
Lunch lady fired for giving a free lunch
A (former) lunch lady in Colorado, who says she was fired because she gave a student a free lunch, calls on taxpayers to provide free meals for all students.
'Md. Breakfast Challenge' feeds hungry kids
Many kids in Md. who could receive free breakfasts at school don't participate in the free breakfast program. Let's change that.