By Alex Klein
Bibliography
Throughout our research process, we combed through hundreds of reports, databases, Congressional hearings, and other sources to bring you this website resource. Below, please find those sources–our “works cited/bibliography” of sorts–that we found most important for understanding the National School Lunch Program.
Fair warning: many are PDFs.
Basic program information
- National School Lunch program website
- NSLP factsheet
- The 2010 reauthorization, the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
- The National School Lunch Act as amended through the 2010 reauthorization
- The 2004 reauthorization, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004
- Senate Report on the 2010 reauthorization
- Code of Federal Regulations: federal rules about program implementation
- Detailed breakdown of food costs in an average district
Evidence of program failings
- Office of Management and Budget report: High Error Programs
- New York Times: a report on whether poor kids are getting free lunches meant for them
- New York Times: children eating school lunches without paying
- Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on poor communication and missed meals
- GAO report: looks at solutions to the “reduced-price fee payment” problem
- GAO report: errors in counting and misreporting.
- Congressional Research Service report: Describes “Section 32″ funding, much of which goes to NSLP
- GAO report: private foodservice companies and reporting errors
- USDA study: error rates when certifying studenrs for free or reduced-price lunches
- Largest USDA recall to date: A large portion of the meat was purchased for the NSLP
Other resources
- Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative: Addressing child obesity was one of the targets of the 2010 reauthorization
- Provision 2: more information on a rule that allows a school district to get its reimbursement for “universal registration” when the poverty rate is high enough
- Data: NSLP national nutrition spending and poverty data