From empanadas to plantains to pulled pork to bruschetta to (yes) mac and cheese, students tried foods that could soon be part of their school menus.

William Pacheco has painful memories of the school lunches he was served as a kid growing up in Florida in the 1990s.

Schools in Needham have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with reusable metal ones.

Participating Hawaiʻi public schools are serving ʻuala (sweet potato) as a lunch side item this month. Approximately 372 pounds of local Okinawan sweet potato were distributed to 91 ...

Louisiana lawmakers are asking Congress to bring back a federal program that helped schools buy food from local farms. It’s one of the cuts the Trump administration made to the Department of ...

Revulsion is one of those feelings we try to steer clear of, but it has a way of sneaking into our daily lives. The people ...

Hughette Bonnette, nearing her 80th birthday, is celebrated as a "School Lunch Hero" for over 30 years of dedication to students and staff in Bulloch County Schools Judge scolds Trump ...

The latest data offers little comfort: In the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, gross domestic product (GDP) grew only 4.87 percent year-on-year, the lowest post-pandemic growth rate since 2021.

Rising costs, the threat of tariffs, and federal funding cuts all loom large as districts finalize what price tag to put on school lunches. For Dustin Walker, Pinellas County Schools' director of food ...

Broward County Public Schools will no longer offer free lunch to all students this upcoming school year. At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board was informed that the surplus of federal funds ...

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