Food prices hurt school budgets, nutrition programs

Schools get a lesson in lunch line economics

Washington Post  April 14, 2008

Rising food prices have forced many school districts to raise lunch prices, to transfer money from other parts of school budgets to traditionally self-supporting food programs and to cut back on programs to offer more nutritional foods to students.  Some schools have began offering less nutritionally-sound lunch choices to benefit from greater profit margins and have cut back on more expensive fresh fruit and vegatable offerings.