School Lunches

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a survey this month that showed over 90% of midwest schools used waivers to serve free meals to students throughout the pandemic. But those waivers are set to expire this summer.

The USDA has extended the summer food service program to allow schools that have been providing meals to low-income kids through the summer to continue...

Parents of K-12 students in Ohio who receive free or reduced school meals will soon see a Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer – or P-EBT – card in the mail. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is sending the P-EBT cards to make up for the 53 days of school breakfasts and lunches students missed out on when the state’s public schools went virtual in March. Families will receive one card for every student in the free meals program. Each card will have $302 or $231, depending on when the student enrolled in the program.

Families that are part of their school district's free or reduced-price meal programs will soon receive assistance to help buy food through the Pandemic…

When Ashley Walters, a Dayton Public Schools parent, heard that meals could be delivered to the homes of students, she was excited. She thought it was...

Some of the biggest leaders in public service and in the business world gathered in Columbus for the 25th Annual Children's Hunger Alliance "Menu of...

The pending federal rule changes could push a million kids off free or reduced-price school meals, at least temporarily.

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Activists delivered a petition with 1.5 million signatures to the agency in an effort to stop a rule change that would end automatic enrollment in free school lunch for nearly 1 million kids.

Only 10 percent of eligible children in Columbus have access to free summer meals. Columbus City Council on Monday voted to approve $2.6 million in…