school nutrition

Former first lady Michelle Obama waves alongside school children while walking down the school lunchline after getting turkey tacos at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., in January 2012 to promote new nutritional guidelines for school lunches.

Trump Administration Rolls Back Michelle Obama's Healthy School Lunch Push

10:02pm May 01, 2017

by Jessica Taylor

The Department of Agriculture is curbing some school lunch standards championed by the former first lady, including stricter requirements on whole grains and sodium content.

A school lunch tray featuring whole wheat tortillas at the School Nutrition Association conference in July 2014. The association is asking Congress to relax the federal school nutrition standards in hopes of attracting more kids back to the school lunch l

Class Divide: Are More Affluent Kids Opting Out Of School Lunch?

10:33am September 20, 2015

by Allison Aubrey

Healthier school lunches are reaching more needy kids, but more kids who could afford to pay full price seem to be brown-bagging it instead. That's why some schools want to loosen nutrition rules.

Texas' agricultural commissioner wants to do away with a decade-old ban on deep fryers and soda machines in schools.

Freedom With Fries? Texas Official Wants Deep Fryers Back In Schools

1:23pm June 11, 2015

by Kate McGee

The agricultural commissioner wants to roll back a decade-old ban on soda machines and deep fryers in schools. He says it's not about giving kids a treat but about giving school districts the choice.

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A lunch served by the Yarmouth, Maine, School Department on Sept. 26, 2014, featured Sloppy Joe's made with Maine beef and local beets, carrots, apples and potato salad. More than 80 percent of Maine schools said they served local foods in a survey conduc

Why Some Schools Serve Local Food And Others Can't (Or Won't)

4:23pm March 12, 2015

by Tracie McMillan

A survey found that 36 percent of U.S. public schools bought food from local farmers during two recent school years. But a slightly greater number of schools served no local food at all.