Providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to students of public and private schools has always been the goal of the School Breakfast Program and the School Lunch Program. These federally-assisted feeding campaigns operate in public schools, nonprofit private schools, and public or private nonprofit licensed residential child care centers every day.

Headed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services, partners such as local educational offices get cash reimbursements and donated commodities from the USDA, and in some cases, State funds, for each meal they give to the students. In exchange, the local educational agencies must serve meals in their national school breakfast and lunch programs that satisfy federal requirements.

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