by Beth Holmes | Aug 22, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Free school lunches for all students, as California revs up the country’s first Universal Meals program. According to experts, 1 out of every 5 Californians is food-insecure, meaning that on a regular basis, they don’t know if they’ll be able to feed...
by Supporting Education | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the United Kingdom, current guidance requires that schools serve food including dairy with each meal, meat or poultry at least three days out of every five-day week, and oily fish (such as salmon or herring) at least once every fifteen days. This guidance is called...
by Supporting Education | Jul 1, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In Twin Falls, Idaho, a middling-sized city towards the South edge of the state, yogurt company Chobani operates a plant that added about 7,000 jobs to the area when they moved in in late 2012. That’s more than a tenth of the city’s population, and the plant is the...
by Sarah Green | Jun 20, 2018 | News, Student Issues
With the end of the school year looming in Westbrook School Department in Maine, Superintendent Peter Lancia was trying to settle the budget. There was a large red entry in the ledgers: nearly $17,000 of lunch debt. Lunch debt is common in school districts all over...
by Jana Hoff | Aug 16, 2013 | Parent Issues
It’s 6:30 a.m. You’re up, and the kids are about to head off to school. Backpacks are packed, except…something’s missing. OMG! You forgot to pack the kids a lunch! What are they going to eat? Can you quickly scrounge up something from here or there? Let’s...
