1 in 6 kids go hungry every day in North Carolina.
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We believe that no child should go hungry and that every child in every public school in North Carolina should have access to breakfast and lunch at school at no cost to their families.
Our Core Values:
No child should go hungry.
School meals should be available at no cost to all students in public schools.
No child should experience shame or stigma due to an inability to pay for school meals.
School meals help children succeed both in and out of school and build strong, resilient communities.
No-cost school meals are an investment in academic performance.
KIDS WHO EAT HEALTHY SCHOOL MEALS DO BETTER IN SCHOOL.
Studies show that providing students with healthy meals at school makes them more attentive and engaged in the classroom, leading to better grades, higher attendance rates, and higher graduation rates.
School meals are healthy.
SCHOOL MEALS MEET STRICT NATIONAL NUTRITION GUIDELINES.
Thus, while food served in schools may look like what is served at home, it is actually specially formulated to meet these guidelines.
School meals are an investment in our economy.
School meals for all will support local farmers and producers.
Providing no-cost school meals to all students in North Carolina public schools will not only ensure every child has access to nutritious breakfast and lunch, but also that school nutrition programs won’t have to pay off meal debt and can instead focus on supporting local farmers and producers and offering healthy, local products to students.
School Meals 101:
In this recorded webinar, Marianne Hedrick Weant and Katie Herndon Dawkins with the North Carolina Alliance for Health break down school meals and their funding.
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Research
Meals Matter: The Community Eligibility Provision and Student Success in North Carolina
Meals Matter: The Community Eligibility Provision and Student Success in North Carolina: This brief describes the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and looks at differences in student outcomes between schools with similar income levels that do and don’t...
UNC Public Policy Capstone Project: School Meal Funding
UNC Public Policy Capstone Project: School Meal Funding: This report was authored by five senior undergraduate students in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to fulfill their Senior Capstone requirement. The team worked...
