A look at which states have the healthiest school lunches
School-based therapy company, ProCare Therapy, ranked which states have the healthiest school meals based on five different factors, including NSLP participation and participation in farm-to-school.
Eating school meals associated with better diet quality among students
A study looked at the dietary intake of 13,041 students before and after the implementation of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kid’s Act.
Also in this week’s K-12 legislation update: Lawmakers pen a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture asking that potatoes remain a vegetable in the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and a pair of bills in Virginia that would set up a farm-to-school task force head to the governor for signature.