Child
Nutrition
Promoting
Child Nutrition and Financial Integrity in School Lunch Programs
On
June 30, 2004, President Bush signed the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act
into law, enacting significant improvements to the nation's school lunch
and child nutrition programs called for by the Education & the
Workforce Committee. The new
law, authored in the House by Education Reform Subcommittee Chairman Mike
Castle (R-DE), strengthens and renews federal child nutrition and school
lunch programs and helps local communities work with parents to fight America’s growing child obesity problem. It
also improves the financial integrity of the school lunch and WIC (Women,
Infants, and Children) programs, and ensures the resources being invested
in these programs reach the children and families they are intended to
serve.
The
Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act’s passage was widely
praised by school groups and nutrition and hunger advocates, and received
broad bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. The
109th Congress will maintain its focus on the importance of ensuring
integrity in federal school lunch and child nutrition programs to help
parents and local communities combat child obesity, and continue to fight
hunger and food insecurity in vulnerable children and families.
Issue
Brief: Promoting
Nutrition and Financial Integrity in Federal Child Nutrition Programs
