Serving roughly 46 million meals a day, these programs represent an important opportunity to provide critical nutrition for America’s children and help them build healthy habits for life.

Survey findings demonstrate that many districts are operating school meal programs under significant financial and operational constraints.

When Hartford Public Schools faced a $60 million structural deficit, its district leaders turned to scheduling data, building a school-by-school staffing model that reduced staffing by 20 FTEs across ...

District leaders have already exhausted most of the easy budget fixes. Rising costs, enrollment shifts, and constrained revenue continue to create long-term financial pressure.