school lunch

A fifth grader in Blue Springs, Missouri, has a big heart that led him to do something special for his friends at Thomas Ultican Elementary School.

A 14-year-old in North County, Missouri, is lifting the burden of school lunch debt from students at a campus close to his heart.

California is set to become the first state in the nation to implement a program offering free meals for all students.

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes an effort to “improve our school kitchens” to “prepare nutritious meals.”

An eight-year-old boy went the extra mile to help out his classmates by selling key chains to raise money to erase their school lunch debt.

A kindergartner in San Diego County, California, is being recognized for her act of kindness toward her fellow students.

A church in Virginia recently helped pay off $18,000 worth of its neighbor’s school lunch debt in Stafford and Spotsylvania Counties.

School “lunch shaming” is now against the law in California, according to a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday. 

An assistant superintendent of a New Jersey school district has proposed a new policy that would withhold school lunches from students that have a $20 or greater lunch debt, and restrict students with $10 of debt to a tuna fish sandwich.

A Pennsylvania school district reportedly refused offers to pay off outstanding student lunch charges despite openly threatening to break up families over it.

President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making school lunches great again by easing restrictions on school lunch menus imposed under the Obama administration.

Two former school lunch ladies in charge of overseeing cafeterias at two separate schools in the town of New Canaan, Connecticut, are accused of conning the town’s school system out of nearly $500,000.

The Trump administration is ending yet another of Michelle Obama’s hated, overly strict school lunch rules by bringing chocolate milk back to school lunch menus.

Ex-first lady Michelle Obama is calling into question the “motives” of those who oppose her bland, tasteless, and universally hated school lunch rules, insisting that those who oppose her ideas don’t care about kids and don’t mind if they “eat crap.”

The New York City public school system has stopped serving a Kellogg’s brand cereal to students, replacing it with a healthier, organic brand of cereal made by a small California company.

Bay Area public radio station KQED is mourning Barack and Michelle Obama’s departure from the White House because of their contribution to healthy food awareness, as well as their elite food tastes.

Once again, school officials are finding themselves disheartened by students who are given fruits and vegetables in school cafeterias only to throw them away before leaving the lunch line. Officials are arguing amongst themselves about what to do to stop it.

Michelle Obama said Thursday that the U.S. has undergone a “culture change” in the five years since she started raising awareness about childhood obesity, but as she celebrated achievements on multiple fronts the first lady also warned that the progress is “incredibly fragile.”

Michelle Obama says she’s confident she can help change the eating habits of an entire generation of children.