American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. ... “The National School Lunch Program is the longest running children’s health program in U.S. history, ...

As of earlier this year, 11.8 million American children qualify for free lunches, and 740,000 qualify for reduced-cost lunches, according to the Education Data Initiative.

American families in some places can expect to pay more school lunches next school year, several school cafeteria directors told USA TODAY.

Viewers were impressed by the Michelin star-worthy school lunches. “That menu is unreal,” fawned one fan. “I don’t think many American kids would eat 1/2 of that food.

In a letter to parents, state Superintendent Ryan Walters has blamed “bureaucratic bloat” for the cost of school lunches ...

A selection of the lunches served to children at a school in South Korea. William Pacheco. Pacheco is skeptical about that approach though. "The U.S. could raise nutritional value standards and ...

American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. Here’s How the School Lunch Has Changed A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores how nutritional science, technological ...