Starting in September, all 2.7 million public and charter school students in New York State are supposed to start receiving ...

Advocates of the bill have said the measure is a legislative stepping stone to providing universal free school meals, an ...

In 2023, the New Mexico Legislature passed an ambitious piece of legislation promising universal school meals, available at no cost to students and with a renewed commitment to fresh and local foods.

The Biden administration also last September expanded access to universal free school meals across the country. Those moves drew on a national experiment by the Trump administration, which created ...

NY’s $340M school meal plan could provide free meals for 2.7M students. Will it pass? Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal includes $340 million to fund universal school meals, ensuring ...

Brenham ISD is considering a major change to its school nutrition program that could make breakfast and lunch free for all students, regardless of income.

Second, the SBFP only provides meals for 120 school days per year (increased to 175 this school year), whereas feeding throughout the entire school year would maximize benefits. A universal ...

Perhaps this is the reason why the school meal service is finally being propelled from the margins to the mainstream of political debate in several countries. As I outline in my latest book, Serving ...

(The state Senate has approved universal school meals in the past.) “It’s another good cause that we just don’t have a lot of extra money for,” said House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi ...

As I outline in my latest book, Serving the Public, the demand for universal free school meals is now gathering momentum. Universal provision is the holy grail of school food reform as it would ...