school lunches

After the day’s meals are done on a recent Tuesday, Gilbert Community Schools director of food service Deb Purcell shuffles through a stack of papers....

School lunch has long been a target of jokes. Those jokes turned to complaints from students and parents alike in 2012 when new congressionally mandated…

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…

Congress' $1.1-trillion spending bill is on the way to President Obama's desk.Among other impacts on America's food and farming system, the bill would…

Months after the USDA enacted rules making school lunches healthier, the agency is proposing rules to mandate healthier snacks in schools as well.The…