Published annually since 1997, Newark Kids Count tracks key trends in child health and well-being in New Jersey's largest city with the latest statistics available. Newark Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five-year trend data, in the following areas: the state of children and families, family economic security, affordable…

Hard-to-grasp dollar amounts are forcing real cuts in K-12 education at a time when the cost of fueling buses and providing school lunches is increasing and the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act still loom larger over states and districts. "One of the real challenges is to continue progress in light of the economy," said…

Condensed from "The School Administrator (December 1968), 11-12.

The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs held hearings on the crisis in the National School Lunch Program (September 7, 1971). This transcript on the hearings includes statements by members of the Committee and the testimony of four witnesses who are involved in the administration of various school food programs. In the appendixes,…

School lunches must be provided to all children who need them. Deficiencies in nutrition are an educational handicap. The potential power of the National Education Association will be able to insure that needy children receive free lunches. (CK)

The director of school lunch programs in Japan discussed Japanese programs as he inspected and evaluated American programs. (Author/RA)

A central commissary plus convection ovens and walkin coolers in satellite schools are solving the problems of inadequate facilities and kitchenless schools. (Author)

Outdoor freezers are described as one solution to the problem of food storage in small rural schools. (JW)

A demonstration of the school lunch program (R through 6) as a learning experience when teachers and school food service workers joined forces. (RG)

Lists and summarizes eight bills either passed by or pending in Congress dealing with child nutrition and school lunch programs. (LLR)

Excerpts from a talk presented at the Second Annual School Administrators' Seminar sponsored by the American School Food Service Assn. in Vail, Colorado, December 3-6, 1968.