School Lunch

Some Connecticut lawmakers and school nutrition advocates have urged Gov. Ned Lamont to continue a $16 million expansion of the state’s free school meal program in his 2024 budget proposal.

More public school students in Connecticut will receive free meals, including breakfast, for the upcoming school year. The state is spending $16 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to expand the program.

Connecticut’s free school lunch program will extend through the rest of the school year under a bill approved by the state’s General Assembly.

New Haven school meals program faces upward of a $4 million deficit by the end of the fiscal year.The program offers free, nutritious breakfast, lunch and…

A plastic bag ban that went into effect this week in New York has some school officials confused about whether they will be required to change the way…

Some school districts in New York are getting creative to increase student participation in the state’s school lunch program. That’s according to a new…