Title: 6 Things You Need to Know About School Food - FoodCorps
Headings: 6 Things You Need to Know About School Food
6 Things You Need to Know About School Food
1. School food is a massive, complex industry.
2. School food leaders have a mammoth task, and it’s not just about food.
3. School meals cost money, money, money.
4. School meals don’t look like they did in the 80s and 90s.
5. Innovative school food leaders are transforming school food.
6. We still have a long way to go.

Content: School food is a $15 billion industry, but even so, school districts are not provided with the appropriate level of funding needed to purchase high-quality food. Public school districts only have $1.19 to spend on each student’s lunch. The remaining amount of funding goes to labor, supplies, benefits, and other indirect costs. 4. School meals don’t look like they did in the 80s and 90s. Remember this? [ image originally from Buzzfeed]
While there are many barriers to serving healthy meals in schools, there’s been a lot of progress in recent years thanks to updated policies and innovation led by school districts and partner organizations. Yes, some school food still looks like the image above. But increasingly, school lunch looks more like this: Lunch at a FoodCorps school in Kalispell, MT
So what happened?