This study develops estimates of the efficacy of school nutrition programs in improving a broad range of dietary outcomes by comparing the nutritional status of students and their families during the school year with the status when school is out. The study finds evidence that children who have a School Breakfast Program (SBP) available consume a…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored the NSLP Application/Verification Pilot Projects to test ways to improve the process for certifying students for free or reduced-price meals. This report presents findings on the impacts of two alternatives to the current application based certification process--Up-Front Documentation and…

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) provide federal financial assistance and commodities to schools serving lunches and breakfasts that meet required nutrition standards. Under the NSLP and the SBP, millions of American students receive a free or reduced-price lunch and/or breakfast every school day.…

Attempts to provide the school administrator and his food service manager with information about how to best operate the cafeteria in view of food shortages and new USDA regulations. Describes foods that will be in relatively ample supply during coming months and analyzes whether food vending machines are a help or a menace to nutritious lunch…

Text of an affidavit in the case, Kennedy v. Detroit Board of Education. Reports on a study which established that prenatal nutrition is directly related to brain size and volume determined at 48 hours of infancy and at eight months of age. Pinpoints the relationship between inadequate nutrition in pregnancy, infant brain size, and intellectual…

Representatives of school foodservice programs, the food industry, and the USDA met to hear the final report of a study made to examine the effectiveness of school lunch programs in New Jersey. (Author)

Family income and size are presently used to determine children's eligibility for free school lunches. The need exists for the development of other criteria (such as nutritional data) to include all children whose diets need improving. (DM)

A recently constructed New York elementary school is an example of how cities are finding ways to provide quality education for children in facilities that assume the additional role of community centers during after-school hours. (MF)

A pilot program for a satellite lunch program (in which food is prepared in a central location and distributed to other schools in the area) is described; the project also involved the conversion of an all-purpose room in an older school to a food service and dining area. (JW)

Suggested are many activities for making lunchtime at school an interesting activity. Included are ideas for music, games, movies, decorations, and plays. (KC)

Federal guidelines are detailed and specific as to what data are needed for full-cost accounting by school districts participating in federally funded school food service programs. (Author/MLF)

Suggestions to increase student participation in school lunch programs include changing the delivery systems, solicitation of student input, and improving the cafeteria environment. (Author/MLF)

This study measured the influence of a nutrition program on third graders and a parent program concerning nutrition and school lunch. (SA)

A closed circuit television system was used to instruct school personnel in the use of a cost-based accounting system in order for school food service programs to receive federal funds. (MLF)

In November 1996, the American School Foodservice Association surveyed 600 school district food service directors to determine how meeting the new dietary guidelines for school lunch and breakfast programs would affect cost, student participation, and wasted food. Most directors felt that meal cost will rise and that including less popular foods…