Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

More schools in New York State enrolled last year in a federal program that provides free meals to students than any other state in the country, according to a recent report by a Washington, ...

More students are getting free- and reduced-price meals in school, according to a recently released report. It’s a rise driven, in large part, by states passing universal school meal laws. New York is ...

A vast majority of school nutrition directors say their programs are challenged by food, labor, and equipment costs; staffing shortages; and procurement issues. Those are the core findings of an ...

A state program that's been helping serve up healthy meals for all Colorado students is posing concerns about whether it can be sustainable financially. That's according to research conducted by a ...

Note to readers • The Salt Lake Tribune is making this story free to all. Utah families who currently pay reduced prices for school meals will soon get them for free after Gov. Spencer Cox approved a ...

The Department of Agriculture has cut over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a news report and a school nutrition nonprofit. The ...

Alexandra Sandoval will never forget the look on a child’s face after he was told he didn’t have enough money to buy a meal at school. She remembers standing with her two children in a breakfast line ...