History of Child Nutrition

The first schoool feeeding

Dec 25, 1790

france and england began school feeding

Jan 11, 1800

first school feeding in the U.S

Mar 6, 1894

Ellen H. Richards initated the first school feeding in Boston

2 books published on poverty and hunger

Nov 11, 1906

1920s lunch progam

Sep 8, 1920

when boys were examined for the 1917 draft for WW1 large numbers of them were found to be malnourished and unfit for military service resulting in the 1920s lunch program

works progress administration

Mar 13, 1935

President Truman signed the National School Lunch Act

Jun 4, 1946

established lunch program on a premanent basis

The Special Milk Program

Dec 18, 1954

created to help dairy farmers move the surplus milk that was no longer needed by the military into the market

Child Nutrition Act was passed

Jun 20, 1966

expanded child nutrition programs and additional funding

ASFSA Panels testimony

Apr 30, 1968

Carl Perkins(KY) appropriated $100 million to schools to feed the children.

School breakfast program made perment

Jan 7, 1975

The Omnibus Teconciliation Act

Sep 7, 1980

resulted in 400 million reduction in child nutrition program funding

autherized the NFSMI

Jan 7, 1989

its purposes are to conduct applied reseach, develop and provide traiing and education,and serve as a clearinghouse for Chilid Nutrition materials

The reauthorization Act

Jan 7, 1998

Reauthorized WIC

Jan 10, 2003

WIC was reauthorized

nutrition standards for school lunch and breakfast programs

Jan 26, 2012

updated over versus serve in the NSLP

Jan 11, 2014