School Lunches

Budget shortfall for voter-approved program would be closed though further tax hike on incomes over $300,000.

Garden to Table is a non-profit currently connected with 18 Boulder Valley schools. They provide supplies and support for kids to get engaged in their school's garden space.

How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature Chalkbeat calls "How I Teach," they ask great educators how they approach their jobs.

The USDA cut two popular federal programs supporting local food systems.

Colorado voters approved Proposition FF in 2022, creating the Healthy School Meals For All program, which provides free breakfast and lunch to all students regardless of family income. Now, state leaders say the program needs more funding.

The farm-to-school movement is out to revolutionize the humble school lunch with fresh food grown on local farms. But the path from cropland to cafeteria is full of complicated twists and turns. A new wave of federal funding is trying to smooth the way.

After a federal pandemic-related program that provided free school meals to all students expired, Colorado voters approved Proposition FF, which creates a new Healthy School Meals for All program. But not all school districts have committed to participating in the initiative that aims to help at least 60,000 Colorado children access food at school. Comments from Erika Cervantes, community organizer, Hunger Free Colorado.

A little boy in an orange shirt walks up to a grab-and-go meal site at an elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. A school worker wearing a mask uses...

Newly minted U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue marked his first day on the job this week by relaxing school nutrition standards that had been…

Schools across the U.S. served more than 5 billion meals in the national school lunch program to millions of students last year. Each one of the meals has…