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Meantime, eight states — California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont — have made school meals free to all students regardless of income.
In the US, 15.2% of children are food-insecure, [49] and 22 million out of the 30 million students who eat school lunch every day rely on free or reduced-price school meals. [ 50 ]
Free school meals can be universal school meals for all students or limited by income-based criteria, which can vary by country. [14] A study of a free school meal program in the United States found that providing free meals to elementary and middle school children in areas characterized by high food insecurity led to better school discipline among the students. [15]
A student at a public school in Virginia selects fruit juice for breakfast. The School Breakfast Program (SBP) is a federally funded meal program that provides free and reduced cost breakfasts to children at public and private schools, and child care facilities in the United States. [1]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In FY 2011, federal spending totaled $10.1 billion for the National School Lunch Program. [3] The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children. [4]