Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income. More than 21 million American children now attend schools that offer free meals ...

Students eat lunch at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake, Utah, in March 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) In March 2020, Congress realized that more students ...

A pair of state lawmakers are advocating to again provide universal free lunches to students in the coming school year, though nobody knows for sure how much it would cost. State Sen. Lindsey Williams ...

Three years ago, the federal government ended a pandemic-era policy that allowed schools to offer free meals to all students. In the years since, many schools have had to go back to pre-pandemic ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Several local schools will soon be eligible to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students for the first time, but some school districts who are newly eligible say the program doesn’t offer enough ...

Eased state and federal guidelines have made it easier for school districts with many low-income students to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. And districts from Brockport and Kingston ...