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Troccoli, Karen B. – 1993
Noting that children of all socioeconomic levels are at risk for poor nutrition, and that hunger and poor nutrition in America are on the rise, this report reviews what is known about the link between nutrition and learning in children and between nutrition education and eating habits. It describes several federal and non-federal government…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Child Development, Child Health, Community Involvement
USDA Summer Meals Program: Lack of Program Awareness Contributes to Unmet Need among Nonparticipants
Vericker, Tracy; Rothstein, Melissa; Gabay, Mary; Gola, Alice Ann H.; Lovellette, Grant – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Participation in the US Department of Agriculture's summer meals program is consistently lower compared to National School Lunch Program (NSLP) participation, even though the programs target the same population of children. The purpose of this study was to elucidate reasons for participation and nonparticipation in the summer meals…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Summer Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. – 1984
Testimony is given in this report from two hearings concerning reauthorization of the nonentitlement child nutrition programs: the Women, Infants, and Children Feeding Program; the Summer Food Service Program; Nutrition Education and Training (NET); State Administrative Expenses, and authority for section 32 commodities. At the March 12, 1984…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Breakfast Programs, Budgeting, Camping
Moore, Quinn; Conway, Kevin; Kyler, Brandon – US Department of Agriculture, 2012
This report responds to the requirement of Public Law 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of State and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Direct certification is a process conducted by the States and by local educational agencies (LEAs) to certify eligible children for free meals without the need for household…
Descriptors: National Programs, Lunch Programs, Certification, Eligibility
US Department of Agriculture, 2009
This paper provides an update on all the new products and projects that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has been working on, in its effort to help schools meet the nutritional needs of the students and to help in the President's challenge to End Childhood Hunger by 2015. This issue includes: (1) Back to…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Hunger, Food Service, Child Health
Muller, Carmen; van Deventer, Maricia Margrit; Pretorius, Beulah; Schönfeldt, Hettie Carina – South African Journal of Education, 2023
The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa provides thousands of needy children with school meals on school days. One, and in some cases 2, of these meals per week are soya based. A review of the NSNP revealed that many children do not eat on those days because they find the soya mince meal unappetising. As the meal served…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction, Foods Instruction
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. – 1973
The sharply increased food costs in 1973 and the unavailability of surplus commodities that schools are accustomed to receiving have placed the nation's schools in a financial bind. This report contains the texts of proposed amendments to the National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Acts and hearings on those amendments which were drafted to deal…
Descriptors: Costs, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Schools, Federal Legislation
Hall, Bryan – 2003
Despite the importance of breakfast, summer, and after-school child nutrition programs, coverage in these programs in Massachusetts is low. This report describes the barriers facing the states School Breakfast, Summer Food Service, and After-School Snack Programs and suggests many innovative solutions and resources that program sponsors can use to…
Descriptors: After School Programs, At Risk Persons, Breakfast Programs, Case Studies
Wichita Unified School District 259, KS. – 1968
Evaluations of ESEA Title I activities are presented in separate sections of this report. Included are information on the objectives, procedures, and evaluation strategy of each activity, presentation of data, and comments about results. Programs were developed for delinquent and neglected children, art instruction and education, physical…
Descriptors: Art Education, Attendance, Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment
Langone, Stephen A. – 1970
Federal health, education, and welfare programs for 1970 benefiting American Indians residing on Federal reservations are listed. The report is divided into 3 sections: (1) Federal Indian programs aimed at improving or providing Indian health services, tribal management services, housing, higher education, and conservation; (2) Federal programs…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Conservation Education, Education
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1980
The Tennessee Nutrition Education and Training (NET) program is part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to develop a coordinated nutrition education program for children from preschool through grade 12. In its first year of operation, the Tennessee NET program conducted summer nutrition education workshops for elementary teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate. – 1977
This pamphlet contains the text agreed to by the committee of conference managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 1139) to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The amendments revise and extend…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Dragoset, Lisa; Gordon, Anne – US Department of Agriculture, 2010
This report describes work using nationally representative 2005 data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment-III (SNDA-III) study to develop a simulation model to predict the potential implications of changes in policies or practices related to school meals and school food environments. The model focuses on three domains of outcomes: (1) the…
Descriptors: National Programs, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
McMillan, Daniel C.; Vigil, Herminia J. – 1993
The health and learning potential of Colorado's children are enhanced by the benefits of several child nutrition programs. The oldest and largest of these programs is the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which served an average of more than 268,000 meals per day in October, 1992. Other programs include the School Breakfast Program (SBP),…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Horn, R. A., Comp. – 1975
This handbook contains an overview of programs along with a five-year fiscal summary of federal support for federally funded educational programs administered by the Ohio Department of Education. Programs include adult basic education, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, federal surplus property,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comprehensive Programs, Driver Education, Educational Programs