School kids dumped empty lunch trays outside Gov. Kathy Hochul's office at the Capitol on Tuesday in protest of her effort to block free school meals for all public-school students in the state.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is getting behind a proposal for universal free school lunches in an about-face after dismal poll numbers — but the program’s massive price tag remains a mystery for now.

“No child should have to learn on an empty stomach,” announced President Obama at his recent Proclamation of National School Lunch Week. In 1962, by joint resolution, Congress designated the ...

School cafeterias, already on the brink of collapse, brace for end of COVID-era free meals School districts face worsening shortages; from dinner rolls to drumsticks.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — With the end of free school meals, some students are walking away with empty trays. According to a survey from the School Nutrition Association, unpaid lunch debt has ballooned ...

Lunchables taken off school lunch trays because of lack of demand Nutrition experts had expressed concern about the presence of the ultra-processed product on school cafeteria menus.

Before/after photos of a student's lunch tray. The first photo was taken when the student left the lunchline and the second after she had eaten, right before everything went into the trash.

Increasing the amount of vegetables kids eat during lunchtime could be as simple as placing photos of vegetables in their lunch trays, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers.

Citing higher labor and production costs, the Wake County school system will raise the price for a full-price student lunch by 25 cents.

WILLMAR -- There will be no more tray-pulling in Willmar schools. Students with no money in their lunch accounts will no longer have their lunch trays taken from them in front of their classmates ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is getting behind a proposal for universal free school lunches in an about-face after dismal poll numbers — but the program’s massive price tag remains a mystery for now.