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Parental Perceptions of the Nutritional Quality of School Lunch Meals and Its Association with Students' School Lunch Participation
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Nicole Eide – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explores parental perception of public-school meals related to the healthfulness, tastiness, cost, value, and convenience of participation in the school lunch program and its impact on student participation in the school-provided lunch program. The researcher used data collected from an online distributed survey provided to families…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, Lunch Programs, Food Standards
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
Child Care and Child Nutrition
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Karolak, Eric – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
The weak economy is challenging the child care program budget. Fluctuations in enrollment come up against rising costs making every penny count. So for many reasons a federal program that helps defray the costs of snacks and meals in child care programs is particularly important and timely. In this article, the author pushes for the…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Food Standards, Costs
Implementation of School Districts' Food Safety Plans and Perceptions of Support for Food Safety and Training in Child Nutrition Programs in One USDA Region
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Dawso Van Druff, Cynthia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
School foodservice directors (FSDs) and school business officials (SBOs) in public school districts with enrollments between 2,500 and 25,000 in the USDA Mid-Atlantic geographic region provided responses to a paper-and-pencil survey. The FSDs assessed the level of implementation of a mandated school food safety plan in their districts and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, State Agencies, School Business Officials, Food Service
Child Nutrition and the School Setting. Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, United States Senate. One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session (March 6, 2007). Senate Hearing 110-41
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US Senate, 2007
Statements were presented by: Honorable Tom Harkin, Chairman, U.S. Senator from Iowa, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Honorable Robert B. Casey, Jr., U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Honorable Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator from Georgia; Honorable Richard G. Lugar; Honorable Ken Salazar, U.S. Senator from Colorado; Kelly…
Descriptors: Obesity, Federal Legislation, Legislators, Nutrition
Pesticides: Improvements Needed To Ensure the Safety of Farmworkers and Their Children. Report to Congressional Requesters.
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Guerrero, Peter F. – 2000
In response to a Congressional request, the General Accounting Office examined issues related to pesticide safety for children in agricultural settings. Pesticides can cause acute, chronic, or delayed-onset illnesses. Children may be exposed to pesticides through farm work; eating pesticide-treated foods; or contact with drift from pesticide…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Child Health, Child Labor, Federal Legislation