Articles Tagged with ''school lunch''

Farmer cooperatives hope a new “Made in America” directive from the Biden administration will lead to more U.S. products being used in the nation’s school lunch program.

In his first 100 days in office, President-elect Joe Biden will have a lot on his plate.

The Department of Agriculture is taking steps to wrap up school lunch changes pursued by Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue that would change milk, whole grain requirements.

As students return to classrooms — or return to distance learning — the school lunch program is operating under unprecedented uncertainty, which is set to trickle down to commodities such as dairy and produce that rely on the lunch trays to carry a good portion of their demand. 

With schools across the country struggling to reopen, the Agriculture Department will let them continue serving meals to all students at no charge until the end of the year or until the available funding runs out. 

In this opinion piece, former Sen. Bob Dole and Marshall Matz discuss the challenges schools face this upcoming year and why it's important to implement a Pandemic School Meals Program.

Uncertainty about how schools will open this fall has elevated concerns that the food items and supplies the country’s 13,698 public school districts need could be difficult to come by.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz and Zach Gihorski discuss the impact the coronavirus has had on children and students in the education system.