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Both the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program give cash reimbursements for food served at participating schools. In the 2012–13 school year, the NSLP provided the following reimbursements for "non-severe-need" schools: $2.86 for free lunches, $2.46 for reduced-price lunches, $0.27 for paid lunches, $0.78 for free ...
The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program ( NSLP) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to qualified students through subsidies to schools. [1]
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 ( Pub. L. 111–296 (text) (PDF)) is a federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 13, 2010. The law is part of the reauthorization of funding for child nutrition (see the original Child Nutrition Act ). It funded child nutrition programs and free lunch programs in schools for ...
Improved performance at school: A 2021 report from the Brookings Institution analyzed the impact of a program that offered schoolwide free meals and found an improvement in math performance ...
As soon as Tracy Area Schools in Minnesota resumed charging for breakfast and lunch last year, students started dropping out of the program. Many of their families simply couldn’t shell out up ...
A school lunch in Washington, D.C., containing (clockwise from bottom left): hamburger, french fries, milk, cantaloupe, and roasted brussels sprouts. A school meal (whether it is a breakfast, lunch, or evening meal) is a meal provided to students and sometimes teachers at a school, typically in the middle or beginning of the school day.
During the pandemic, Gabe Segal, an eighth-grade special education teacher in Virginia, used his personal stimulus check to pay off over $600 of lunch debt at a local elementary school. "It's a ...
After the expiration of a federal program that provided funding for free meals for all students, nine states are picking up the tab for pupils’ breakfast and lunch. States step in to pay for ...