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Co-published with Jacobin. When schools offer universal free meals, hungry kids eat. They also have better academic performance, behavior, attendance, and psychosocial functioning.

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HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) on Wednesday announced that since its implementation, the Free School Breakfast Program has served more than 23 million breakfasts to students across

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Representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service Southwest Region joined child nutrition directors from across the state Wednesday to discuss how to improve communication about the new Healthy Kids Initiative.

The program would require schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to every student.

Since the program's inception in 1966, the PDE said, more than 23 million breakfasts have been served to students across the Commonwealth.

As food meals being served in school decreases due to eligibility and payments, the number of children going to school hungry rises.

A series of workshops hosted by Kansas State University this spring in Wichita, Olathe and Parsons delved deeper into the up and coming agricultural sector of direct-to-consumer meat marketing, with

The announcement aims to highlight the role that the USDA’s School Breakfast Program plays in ensuring that all Arkansas students are healthy.