What's left of the Trump administration's Department of Education has threatened to pull federal funding from New York City ...

Over a dozen years after higher-fat milk options were removed from school menus to combat obesity among children, momentum is ...

Commentary: The 30% New York Initiative reimburses school food programs when 30% of food served to students is grown in New ...

Increasing investment in the city’s strained child care system is front and center in the council’s response to Mayor Eric ...

Federal lawmakers have revived bills that would allow whole and 2% milk to be served again in schools, in addition to the ...

The city won't be ditching the fresh fruit and vegetable snacks given out in public schools, after inquiries last week by The ...

NYC schools face a $350 million shortfall in Gov. Hochul’s budget plan. Here’s what to know about the different proposals for ...

The coin-clinking brown paper bag with a handwritten lunch order on the front was replaced by an app long ago. But the old-school, parent-run canteen still exists. If, that is, you are lucky ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said she can’t believe how controversial her school lunch initiative turned out to be during a recent podcast interview. "I was trying to be strategic about ...

is a federal assistance program "that allows high-poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students," Hunger Solutions New York says. Currently, any school, group of schools or ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul dropped in during lunch at Eagle Point Elementary School in Albany Thursday o promote food assistance programs. Hochul, a Democrat, sat down and chatted with ...

According to Hochul, Albany County gets $6 million from the federal government for student school breakfasts and lunches and elimination of the Education Department could jeopardize that. “That’s a $2 ...