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School meals
August 2024
School food fights
Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election?
Marcus Weaver-Hightower
Tim Walz made school meals free for all children in his state, while Project 2025 is gunning for programs that feed students in high-poverty schools
June 2024
School food fights
Kids have a right to water in US schools, but does that water make the grade?
Almost 15 years after federal law put free water on school menus, states still struggle with how to guarantee access
Three steps that would stop children going hungry
Letter:
Andrew Forsey
suggests reforms that would ensure fewer children’s lives are blighted by poverty and hunger
A quarter of state school pupils in England receiving free school meals
Department for Education data shows a record 2.1 million are eligible, up by 75,000 in a year
May 2024
School food fights
Organic cheese and free lunch for all: what the US can learn from other nations about better school meals
Jennifer Gaddis and Sarah A Robert
Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey
UK free school meal allowances too low for healthy lunches, study finds
Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope
Gordon Brown
April 2024
Khan vows to set up ‘baby banks’ across London if re-elected mayor
School food fights
Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence?
April McGreger
March 2024
School absences are a sign the curriculum could be failing children
School food fights
California may ban some food dyes in school meals. Will other states follow?
‘I can’t make them eat it’: Teachers and parents share school meal concerns in England
‘How difficult is it to bake a potato?’: fed-up head hits out at school’s caterers
Parents, teachers and school staff in the UK: what’s your experience of school dinners these days?
School food fights
‘Hey, I grew that’: the Native American school that’s decolonizing foodways
February 2024
School food fights
Got chocolate milk? As US schools consider a ban, an old, sketchy study holds sway
School food fights
In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids
School food fights
Noodles of opportunity: how an Oregon law boosted a small food business and built community
School food fights
She wanted to make a chicken sandwich with fewer chemicals for schoolkids. How hard could it be?
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