School Lunches

Public schools across Ohio have seen numbers of meals provided to kids plummet since the waiver expired and parents, advocates and politicians are seeking solutions to feed kids.

There are two resolutions before the Ohio State Board of Education that pertain to free breakfast and lunch programs for students.

Thanks to a pandemic program, over the past two years about 90% of schools were able to serve free meals to all students regardless of income. We take a look at the lessons learned from the two-year experiment in universal free school meals.

President Biden signed The Keep Kids Fed Act last week. It extends pandemic flexibilities for school meals, although with some changes.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a survey this month that showed over 90% of midwest schools used waivers to serve free meals to students throughout the pandemic. But those waivers are set to expire this summer.

The USDA has extended the summer food service program to allow schools that have been providing meals to low-income kids through the summer to continue...

Parents of K-12 students in Ohio who receive free or reduced school meals will soon see a Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer – or P-EBT – card in the mail. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is sending the P-EBT cards to make up for the 53 days of school breakfasts and lunches students missed out on when the state’s public schools went virtual in March. Families will receive one card for every student in the free meals program. Each card will have $302 or $231, depending on when the student enrolled in the program.

Families that are part of their school district's free or reduced-price meal programs will soon receive assistance to help buy food through the Pandemic…

When Ashley Walters, a Dayton Public Schools parent, heard that meals could be delivered to the homes of students, she was excited. She thought it was...

Some of the biggest leaders in public service and in the business world gathered in Columbus for the 25th Annual Children's Hunger Alliance "Menu of...