The National School Lunch Program: Background and DevelopmentNova Publishers, 2003 - 192 pages School food service programs such as those of 1971 did not just happen overnight nor even during the past decade. Preceding today's programs is a long history of over one hundred years of development, constant research, testing and evaluating, in order to provide the best nutrition, nutrition education and food services for the nation's millions of children in school. This book provides a brief background on school lunch programs in Europe, as well as the early attempts in the United States. Also included in the book is the School Lunch Act along with the current issues and development that school food service programs face today. |
Contents
Nutrition Behavior and Learning | 49 |
Technical Developments in School Food Service | 53 |
Congressional Action | 55 |
School Milk Programs | 61 |
Richard B Russell National School Lunch Act | 65 |
Index | 185 |
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95 Stat added by section amended by section amended this paragraph amended this sentence amended this subparagraph amended this subsection Amendments of 1986 appropriated Child Nutrition Act Child Nutrition Amendments Commodity Credit Corporation Consumer Price Index cost day care home debarment donated educational agency eligible for free family or group Federal fiscal food program food service management food service programs former paragraph free and reduced free lunches free or reduced funds group day group day care home sponsoring organization inserting June 20 lunches served milk national average payment National School Lunch number of children operation paragraph by striking percent pilot project prescribed program authorized redesignating former reduced price lunches reduced price meals Russell National School school breakfast program school food authority School Lunch Act school lunch program Secretary of Agriculture September 30 service institutions special assistance subparagraph by striking subsection added subsection by striking
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Page 37 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food...
Page 180 - USC 1431), or purchased under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 USC 612c...
Page 149 - For purposes of this section, adult day care centers shall be considered eligible institutions for reimbursement for meals or supplements served to persons 60 years of age or older or to chronically impaired disabled persons, including victims of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders with neurological and organic brain dysfunction.
Page 80 - Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, which information concerns or relates to the trade...
Page 37 - In recognition of the demonstrated relationship between food and good nutrition and the capacity of children to develop and learn, based on the years of cumulative successful experience under the national school lunch program with its significant contributions in the field of applied nutrition research, it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress that these efforts shall be extended, expanded, and strengthened under the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture as a measure to safeguard the...
Page 84 - Commodities purchased under the authority of section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 774) , as amended, may be donated by the Secretary to schools, in accordance with the needs as determined by local school authorities, for utilization in the schoollunch, program under the Act as well as to other schools carrying out nonprofit schoollunch programs and institutions authorized to receive such commodities.
Page 97 - Such accounts and records shall at all times be available for inspection and audit by representatives of the Secretary and shall be preserved for such period of time, not in excess of five years, as the Secretary determines is necessary.
Page 77 - A child whose family income is 130 percent or less of applicable family size income levels contained in the nonfarm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget is eligible for a free lunch. (i) Pre-discount price. The "pre-discount price...
Page 37 - In (1) nonprofit schools of high school grade and under, and (2) nonprofit nursery schools, child-care centers, settlement houses, summer camps, and similar nonprofit Institutions devoted to the care and training of children. For the purposes of this section "United States" means the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
Page 67 - Act) served during such fiscal year to children in schools in such State, which participate in the school lunch program under this Act under agreements with such State educational agency, by a national average payment per lunch for such fiscal year determined by the Secretary to be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act...