Feeding 30 million schoolchildren is a difficult task. As a result, many of today’s school cafeterias offerings end up as appealing as a tray of lukewarm airplane food.
And if there’s one point of agreement on the state of school lunches, it’s that local school districts and the federal government are overtasked. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP) helps feed millions of American schoolchildren. Critics charge that the program is underfunded and misspends money on meals that are overly processed, too rich in fat and not nutritious. The challenge is how to change this on a national and local level.
