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The Halal School Meals Network launched in April, offering certified halal meals at three schools in Westbrook, Portland, and South Portland.

Maine school officials say financial help is needed to follow proposed new federal rules that would reduce the amount of sugar in school meals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing up to $1.5 billion to states and school districts to help school meal program providers address supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic.

A provision in the state's supplemental budget passed earlier this month makes Maine one of the first states in the country to provide free school meals for all students. But state education officials say that parents should continue to fill out school meal paperwork — or their schools could be at risk of losing funding.

Over the years, attention to nutrition has changed the types of school lunches that are offered in Maine. The Obama Administration revamped the federal…

This December the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it is rolling back school nutrition standards enacted under the Obama administration. USDA…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is relaxing Obama-era nutrition standards for school lunch programs. The major change in the rule, announced Thursday,…

Cape Elizabeth High School became the latest school in the state to pull out of the federal school lunch program last week. District officials say the…

An anonymous donor has paid off more than half of Westbrook’s student lunch debt.Westbrook Superintendent Peter Lancia says that since the lunch debt got…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ A Maine campaign against child hunger is providing grants to six school districts to help with plans to get food to kids. The Full…