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Moving from Afterschool Snack to a Meal: It’s easier than it looks!

FRAC Facts: Serve Meals on Weekends, School Holidays, and School Breaks

New standards first took effect in the 2012–2013 school year for lunch, 2013–2014 school year for breakfast, and 2014–2015 school year for competitive foods. This brief highlights the evidence that the new standards for school meals are working.

The Community Eligibility Provision, which became an option for high-poverty schools nationwide for the first time in the 2014-2015 school year, allows eligible schools to offer nutritious meals to all students at no charge. In the first two years of nationwide availability, schools across the country have been quick to adopt it due to its many benefits, according to this report by FRAC and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

This guide, co-authored by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Food Research & Action Center, highlights key steps that advocates and community members can take to support school districts’ adoption of the Community Eligibility Provision. These steps are divided into three categories: informing school districts, analysis and policy work, and how to engage relevant stakeholders.

FRAC Facts: Community Eligibility Provision

FRAC Facts: Offering Free Breakfast to all Students

This issue brief describes steps that school districts can take to communicate effectively with all families, and was co-authored by FRAC, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Migrant Legal Action Program.

This annual FRAC analysis looks at school breakfast participation rates and policies to evaluate successful practices in selected school districts across the country. (Previously, this report was known as School Breakfast in America’s Big Cities.)

In this annual report tracking participation in the School Breakfast Program, FRAC compares the number of schools and the number of low-income children that participate in breakfast to those that participate in the National School Lunch Program to measure growth in the program.

A graphic outlining seven actions anti-hunger advocates can take to protect SNAP benefits for jobless people.

The Food and Agriculture Policy Collaborative (FAPC) is a partnership of national and local organizations working to promote the vision of healthy food and healthy economies through the advancement of four policy priorities.

This guide offers concrete examples of state budget investments that have proven to connect more food insecure people to federal nutrition programs and address some of the gaps in the reach of these programs.

This bipartisan survey was conducted by Hart Research Associates, a Democratic firm, and Chesapeake Beach Consulting, a Republican firm, to gauge Americans’ attitudes and perceptions of hunger.

This map uses state and federal participation, funding, and legislative data collected for FRAC’s annual School Breakfast Scorecard to demonstrate the status of breakfast participation and the opportunity for growth in each state.