Iván Sarabia, 20-21 Fellow from Academy for Global Citizenship talking to 2nd grade students about how liquids can’t be separated from one another once combined by looking for the “eggs” in the banana bread batter. Bryan Soto, 19-20 Fellow from...
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2020 – Today, the Pandemic Child Hunger Prevention Act was introduced in response to the growing issue of food insecurity among school children. Because of COVID-19, an increasing number of households are facing various disruptions including high...
Families haven’t had to prove their income in recent months, but the Trump administration hasn’t extended that flexibility. The Trump administration is resisting calls to make it easy for tens of millions of students to get free meals at school this year, even as...
Katie Wilson, executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, tells TODAY’s Al Roker how school districts are spending millions to feed people during the pandemic… View the video...
Imagine, for a moment, American children returning to school this fall. The school week looks vastly different, with most students attending school two or three days a week and doing the rest of their learning at home. At school, desks are spaced apart to discourage...
In communities around the country, schools may be the only institutions making sure that hungry children and their families are fed. They’ve opened grab-and-go lunch stations and started delivering meals to neighborhoods by bus. But some programs are also going broke,...