The Iowa Department of Education has awarded almost $900,000 in competitive grants to 38 school districts and other qualified ...

Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.

A new state grant program to expand existing summer food assistance programs for Iowa students in low-income families ...

Solomon understood the funding would be based on a $3 per meal basis - a “significant drop” from what schools were funded at. Seymour said with buying power, the lunches would be heavily ...

We can connect these children to the nutrition that they need when school is not in session,” said Representative Dan Wolf, a ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds created and dedicated $900K to the grants after rejecting $29 million in federal funding to remain in ...

Several surrounding jurisdictions have a meals tax, and proponents say it will provide additional funding for schools and ...

School meals in the Wake County system will rise another $0.25 next year — the third year in a row the school board has voted ...

Gov. Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to ...

School meal program have always depended on an alphabet of state and federal programs for funding. Some requiring families to ...