The policy, announced by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Nov. 1 , aims to lower costs for those who make roughly ...

Councils have reminded parents of secondary age pupils that if they are on certain benefits they are eligible for free school ...

Analysis showed the change would immediately benefit more than 2,300 children from the city’s poorest households, the authority said. According to the Labour-run council, families who qualify for free ...

Thousands more children from England’s poorest households are eating a free school meal because of a new trial scheme. The pilot project, run by the Fix Our Food research programme and involving ...

"Learning is the furthest thing from the Children's mind if they don't have enough to eat," said state Sen. Jana Hughes.

More than 140,000 more students ate free lunch last year. It cost $190 million, but experts say it’s good for learning.

The Department of Public Instruction cited that data Friday when it announced the nearly $294 million ask on universal free school meals, part of the larger 2025-27 budget request related to ...

The Oregon Legislature has designated more than $100 million for expanded school nutrition programs through next year, but 65 schools in the state still don't have universal free meals for students.

In the first year of the Minnesota Free School Meals Program, more than 150 million meals were served to students. This saved Minnesota families approximately $1,000 per student. Governor Tim Walz ...

eat a free lunch on Oct. 15, 2024. Oregon lawmakers plan a proposal to make school meals free for all. Ben Botkin / Oregon Capital Chronicle Childhood health advocates and state lawmakers are ...

Minnesota’s free school meals program took effect before the 2023-24 school year, and schools served 13.8 million more breakfasts that year than the year before — a 40% increase. That surge ...