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The Summer Food Service Program ( SFSP) began in 1968. It was an amendment to the National School Lunch Act. Today, the SFSP is the largest federal resource available for local sponsors who want to combine a child nutrition program with a summer activity program. [2] Sponsors can be public or private groups, such as non-profit organizations ...
Better health and more food security: A 2023 study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that children who received onsite meals and snacks provided by their child care ...
These free or subsidized meals have the potential to increase household food security, which can improve children's health and expand their educational opportunities. [1] A study of a free school meal program in the United States found that providing free meals to elementary and middle school children in areas characterized by high food ...
runaway youth.The McKinney-Vento ActThe McKinney-Vento Act authorizes the federal EHCY program. The purpose of the EHCY program is to ensure that. children and youth experiencing homelessness have access to a free, appropriate public education. The McKinney-Vento Act establishes the educational definition of a homeless child or youth (see the ...
Free school meals in Finland are viewed as an investment for the future; the aim is to maintain and improve children's health, well-being, and learning. The school meal is used as a pedagogical tool for teaching table manners, food culture, nutrition, and healthy eating habits, as well as for increasing the consumption of vegetables, fruits and ...
The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-265) expands federal child nutrition programs in several ways to assist homeless, migrant, foster, and runaway children and youth by providing: Automatic eligibility for free school meals. Streamlined procedures for documenting eligibility. Full school year eligibility for free ...
Every year in the Common Core of Data (CCD), NCES releases data on the number of students eligible for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meal program that provides nutritionally balanced low-cost or free meals to children during the school day. The program was established under the National School ...
Percentage of public school students in low-poverty and high-poverty schools, by race/ethnicity: School year 2012-13. NOTE: High-poverty schools are defined as public schools where more than 75.0 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL), and low-poverty schools are defined as public schools where 25.0 percent or less of the students are eligible for FRPL.