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Monica D. Zuercher; Dania Orta-Aleman; Caitlin D. French; Juliana F. W. Cohen; Christina A. Hecht; Kenneth Hecht; Leah E. Chapman; Margaret Read; Punam Ohri-Vachaspati; Marlene B. Schwartz; Anisha I. Patel; Lorrene D. Ritchie; Wendi Gosliner – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Incorporating scratch-cooked, organic, and locally grown foods into school meal programs can enhance meal quality and support local food systems. Methods: 430 California school food authorities were surveyed to (1) evaluate their use of scratch-cooked, organic, and locally grown foods in their programs; (2) identify demographic and…
Descriptors: Food, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Grants
Deborah A. Olarte; Wendi Gosliner; Leah E. Chapman; Christina Hecht; Ken Hecht; Punam Ohri-Vachaspati; Anisha I. Patel; Margaret Read; Lorrene D. Ritchie; Marlene B. Schwartz; Monica D. Zuercher; Dania Orta-Aleman; Michele Polacsek; Juliana F. W. Cohen – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: School meals were served free of charge to all public school students in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some students still did not participate. Methods: In this mixed-methods study, surveys and interviews were conducted with food service directors (FSDs) from California (n = 556 surveys; n = 29 interviews) and…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Public Schools, COVID-19
Kristiina Janhonen; Cecilia Olsson; Maria Waling – Education Inquiry, 2025
This action research study explores how co-developing school meals can be taken as a case for education for sustainable development, as integrated to home economics education. We analyse a seven-month-process of collaborative participation in a Finnish secondary school conducted with two home economics teachers, a school food manager, and students…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences, Lunch Programs, Food, Secondary School Teachers
Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2025
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) provide federal funding for school lunches and breakfasts served to nearly 30 million children daily in close to 94,000 schools. Because federal spending on NSLP and SBP depends in part on student participation in school meals, it may be of interest to Congress to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Student Participation, Eligibility

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