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USFA Member Aaron Smith, School Nutrition Director in Seattle Public Schools wins K-12 segment Silver Plate Award from IFMA. Aaron also serves on the USFA Board of Directors. Congratulations Aaron!
School districts around the country are drowning in students’ lunch debt. Three months after the federal government stopped providing free school meals to all public school students, some districts are reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid bills. In one district,...
When schools began to close in March 2020 due to COVID-19, school nutrition programs rapidly became feeding centers in their communities. Instead of serving students in cafeteria lines, schools were on the front lines of a global pandemic, providing critical meals to...
For immediate releaseContact: Debby Lee Cohen – 917-282-0253, [email protected] Urban School Food Alliance – [email protected] Cafeteria Culture - [email protected] WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2022 – On November 2, 2022, Cafeteria Culture and the...
Five days before COVID-19 nutrition waivers were set to expire, President Joe Biden signed the Keep Kids Fed Act into law. The bill, which Congress passed on June 24, would increase reimbursements to schools and child care centers and grant access to summer meals...
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, the President signed into law the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022, which extends certain flexibilities for child nutrition programs and provides temporary increases in reimbursement rates for school meals and meals provided at child care centers....
School meal programs have prevented children from hunger and malnutrition for decades. Available in almost every public and private school in the country, school meals operate under federal nutrition guidelines and a federal per meal reimbursement rate based on family...
On July 1, the universal free school lunch will be no more. The federal pandemic-era waivers that provided free meals to all students, regardless of economic status, is expiring June 30. Since former President Donald Trump signed the COVID-19 aid package in 2020, 10...
Schools and child-feeding sites are bracing for rising costs and supply disruptions as federal meal subsidies run out in weeks. The food assistance, in the form of Agriculture Department waivers authorized since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, allows schools and...
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