The TV chef supports demands for legislation on school meal nutrition to apply to all schools.
Oliver took on Huntington after successfully reforming the school meal system in the United Kingdom.
Our independent review of school food will examine how schools can do more to ensure children eat a healthy school meal.
This legislation will help 115, 000 children gain access to school meal programs.
In January 2012, USDA released new school meal regulations to update the quality of nutrition through the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs.
The 2009 census showed a rise in free school meal pupils from 15.5% to 15.9% in primary schools and from 13.1% to 13.4% in secondary.
The NIAO report also found a "strong correlation between between low levels of academic achievement and free school meal entitlement (an indicator of social deprivation)".
The signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into law is a long-awaited victory for the 31 million students who participate in federal school meal programs.
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Around 139, 800 children live in poverty in Scotland but only 97, 096 receive a free school meal, figures compiled by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland show.
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Dr Sam Royston, policy advisor at the Children's Society, believes more than half of school children living in poverty, around 1.2 million, are still not receiving a free school meal.
These changes represent the first major revision to school meal requirements in more than 15 years, and they come on the heels of recent updates to the Federal Government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
"As part of the government's targets for reducing obesity levels and its aim to improve children's health through better diets and lifestyles, school meal providers are expected to prepare nutritious meals from fresh ingredients, " she said.
By increasing the number of students eligible to enroll in school meal programs and improving the quality of food served, this legislation simultaneously tackles both hunger and the obesity levels currently affecting too many communities across this nation.
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Recently, for example, I was in Nicaragua visiting a new client, a 700-member farmer cooperative that produces coffee for export and corn for domestic consumption The cooperative sells 300 tons of corn annually to its main buyer, the World Food Programme which is used to produce 6.7 million school lunches a year or one meal per day for 44, 000 children for an entire school year.
He proposed a free mid-day meal program for school children in northern states.
He has also increased expenditure on midday meal schemes for school-going children.
The prospect of free morning meals has been brought a step closer, with the Welsh Assembly Government announcing that every primary school child will get a free meal by September 2006.
The bill establishes sensible nutrition standards for the food sold in school that will help push the junk food out of the building and make it easier for kids to have access to a nutritious meal or snack in school.
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She's asking school children to think of a special meal that will be served to the Queen at Buckingham Palace in June.
The package would allow religious groups to compete with secular organizations for federal dollars to pay for after-school programs, drug treatment counseling, meal assistance and other programs: In addition, they include broader tax deductions for Americans who make regular charitable donations.
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Ms. FRAN DRAKE (School Counselor, Orange Beach Elementary School): We include a Friday night meal.
Philip's School, kids and parents gather for a hot meal, served restaurant style.
Then they move to a nearby state school for the afternoon, enjoying a free midday meal, books and some other help.
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These standards require schools and caterers to provide a daily hot meal for pupils, as well as free school meals for those that are eligible.
Children at a Northamptonshire school have been going to the pub at lunchtime for a hot meal.
Shouldn't we all have the right to a quiet meal with our family or the chance to walk our children to school without having cameras jammed into our kids' faces?
Stir-fried vegetables would be appropriate on a day when a swift meal was needed because children had to be picked up from an after-school club, for example.
But these days, even when parents do have the time and the resources to buy healthy foods and make a simple meal at home, the reality is that kids are spending a third of their time at school, right?
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