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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 ...
[2] [7] The most current reimbursement rates for participating schools are $1.55 for each free breakfast, $1.25 for each reduced-price breakfast, and $0.27 for each paid breakfast. A school may receive a higher reimbursement rate for serving free or reduced-price meals to more than 40% of their students in the previous year.
As of October 2024, states in the contiguous United States which serve lunches through the NSLP receive federal reimbursements at rates of $0.42 per full price meal, $4.03 per reduced price meal (meals which for which students cannot be charged more than 40 cents), [24] and $4.43 per free meal. An additional $0.02 per meal served in a school ...
Nearly 3,000 school districts will soon be eligible to join a USDA program that provides free meals to students regardless of income.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, for the 2012–13 school year, 21.5 million American children received free lunch or reduced-price lunch at school. [5] Across the U.S, the school lunch program varies by state. [6] In December 2018, the USDA weakened the ability to enforce the Act. [7]
Chalkbeat reports on the circumstances surrounding free school meal initiatives across the U.S. Kids like free school meals. States are trying to reel in the costs.
Link2Feed used USDA data to explore the history and scale of the school breakfast program. The U.S. served a record 2.5 billion meals to kids in 2022.
The SMI required school meals to: Contain less than 30 percent of calories from fat and 10 percent of calories from saturated fat over the course of a week Meet one-third of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) for protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, and specific levels of calories for specified age groups