School Beat: The 10 Dumbest Things About the National School Lunch ProgramDana Woldowbyline‚ Feb. 21‚ 2008The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has provided meals to students since 1946, and currently serves over 30 million children. It is overseen by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). If you thought the recent news about possibly tainted beef in school cafeterias indicated some problems with the NSLP and its overseer, the USDA, you’d be right. Failure to guarantee the safety of food served to schoolchildren is merely the latest problem to surface. Here are some others: |