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School Meal Programs: USDA Could Enhance Implementation of the Buy American Provision. Report to Congressional Requesters. GAO-23-105884
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Larin, Kathryn A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the school meal programs that provide nutritious, lowcost meals to about 30 million children each day, according to USDA fiscal year 2019 data. School food authorities participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program must comply…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Food, Purchasing
School Meals and Other Child Nutrition Programs: Background and Funding. CRS Report R46234, Version 5. Updated
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Billings, Kara Clifford – Congressional Research Service, 2021
The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other institutional settings. The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Food
National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education. Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on H.R. 1139.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
This publication reports the considerations of a subcommittee to which was referred H.R. Bill 1139 to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 in order to extend and revise the food service program. The bill would extend through 1982 three child nutrition programs whose authorizations are expiring at the end of…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
National School Lunch Act, as Amended (Asterisks Indicate Deletion of Provisions No Longer Effective as of 10-7-75).
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Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1975
The Declaration of Purpose of this Act states that it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well being of the nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Educational Programs