Many needy California schoolchildren not taking part in subsidized summer...
Education budget cuts are blamed for 15% drop in participation in summer meal programs. 0 By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleVerona's Laning Avenue School helps hungry children nationwide
Students from Laning Avenue Elementary School in display some of the two dozen backpacks that were sent to Blessings in a Backpack. Peter Dupin of 's UPS store joins the students after reducing...
View ArticleCharter School Free Meals: California Bill Would Extend Free Meal Program To...
Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Bernice Yeung At the Blue Oak School in Chico, where 60 percent of the charter school's student body comes from low-income households, it’s a source of...
View ArticleOregon Community Schools Model Staying Power
Portland, Ore. For Lynch View Elementary, a K-5 school in suburban Portland, the school day doesn't end when the bell rings at 2:22 p.m. As one of 64 "community schools" in Multnomah County, the...
View ArticleFinding, feeding hungry children is Food 4 Kids’ mission
When most kids love to skip classes, what would compel a child with a 102-degree fever to go to school? Cathy Dugan, a school social worker, learned the answer one day: Hunger. Dugan keeps a sharp eye...
View ArticleKids won't go hungry through winter break
HOLIDAY -- Students concerned about where their next meal will come from during the winter break from school won't have to worry Dec. 26 through Jan. 7. Gulfside Elementary School will be providing...
View ArticleCommunity center aims to teach, feed unemployed residents
How might you entice 400 people to show up at your place to teach them basic job-hunting skills? Feed them. On Saturday, the Meadows Park Community Center, 1943 South El Paso Ave., hopes a breakfast...
View ArticleSchool Lunch Menu: Restaurant Worthy Food Served To Students In Japan
Posted: January 27, 2013 Tokyo, Japan – A school lunch in Japan is seen with national pride, as the meals are healthy and appetizing, rarely frozen, and made from scratch. Students are given food...
View ArticleDonations aim to help hungry kids over winter break
On Christmas Eve, Broad Acres Elementary School’s acting principal, Luis San Sebastian, stood by as citizens drove up to the Silver Spring school loaded with gifts for his students’ needy families....
View ArticleMore St. Louis-area students rely on free, reduced-price school lunches
As students sit down to lunch in school cafeterias across the St. Louis area, a growing number are dining for free or at reduced prices. For the first time in some school districts, that marker of...
View ArticleSearchers renew hunt over weekend for 7-year-old Oregon boy missing since...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Searchers have renewed their hunt this weekend for a 7-year-old Oregon boy who's been missing since early...
View ArticleMore students rely on free, reduced-price school lunches
As students sit down to lunch in school cafeterias across the St. Louis area, a growing number are dining for free or at reduced prices. For the first time in some school districts, that marker of...
View ArticleWhen the next meal is a maybe
Every day more than 700,000 people in Harris County are uncertain about where they will get their next meal. Not all of them are poor - many are working people who don't qualify for federal food...
View ArticleExclusive: Half of teachers forced to feed pupils going hungry at home
Heads and doctors want needy children to get free breakfast as Guardian survey reveals upsurge in demand Children, parents and teachers at Hill Mead primary school in Brixton, south London, tell...
View ArticleAttorney Charles Boyk Features Feed Lucas County Children as One of the...
Feed Lucas County Children is one of 15 charities participating in The Chuck Boyk Challenge. Toledo, Ohio (PRWEB) January 08, 2013 The Chuck Boyk Challenge is a charity event that is ongoing until...
View ArticleSchool meal programs are defense against child hunger
When he was campaigning for re-election in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt took time in Boston to talk about the country's school lunch program. FDR said, "Milk does those children more good than...
View ArticleAgencies feeding the hungry struggle to keep food on their shelves
Sherry Love, a cook at the Kansas City Rescue Mission, makes a mean pot of soup, so it's a good thing the shelter's refrigerator is full of ham bones. "We'll pull those out and she'll make ham and...
View ArticleFood bank in high school helps feed Ind. students
Students in an impoverished eastern Indiana city will have help in getting enough to eat, thanks to a new food pantry. Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana set up the pantry at Connersville High School to...
View ArticleSchool breaks put extra strain on struggling families
Thousands of students in the Clark County School District rely on their schools for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Extended breaks from school, such as the two weeks at the end of last month, can be...
View ArticleMore Ohio kids living in poverty, lunch program shows
A record 840,000-plus students are in the subsidized school-lunch program. Many suburbs have logged big increases. Nearly half of Ohio’s schoolchildren qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches...
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