{"id":11623,"date":"2021-10-12T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:51:37","slug":"celebrating-national-school-lunch-week-and-school-nutrition-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/2021\/10\/12\/celebrating-national-school-lunch-week-and-school-nutrition-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating National School Lunch Week And School Nutrition Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11623\" class=\"elementor elementor-11623\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-273cfb2d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"273cfb2d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-606faf49\" data-id=\"606faf49\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b88d1ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b88d1ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/breakfast-maryland-queen-anne-county-matapeake-es-2016-5-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11626\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11626 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/Breakfast-Maryland-Queen-Anne-County-Matapeake-ES-2016-5-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a>75 years ago, President Truman signed the National School Lunch Act, forming the National School Lunch Program, which\u2014in turn\u2014paved the way for the creation of other programs like school breakfast, after school meals, summer meals, and more. School nutrition programs play a massive role supporting kids through school meals, pantries, and much more.<\/p><p>Across the country, 30 million students participate in the school lunch program, including nearly 386,000 kids in South Carolina. Last year, over 58 million healthy and nourishing school lunches were provided to kids across the state.\u00a0 Yet, this year, school nutrition professionals are facing an immense set of challenges, including supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, as the pandemic continues.<\/p><p>Despite these obstacles, school nutrition workers continue to collaborate with principals, teachers and other school staff to get kids the food they need, providing critical support in this ever-changing school year.<\/p><p>This National School Lunch Week, we recognize those leaders who are behind the scenes, making decisions to help staff and students stay safe, healthy and nourished.You help guarantee kids are healthy and ready to learn, and provide a constant in these challenging times. Feeding kids today is one of the smartest investments we can make to ensure they\u2019re ready to face the challenges of tomorrow.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75 years ago, President Truman signed the National School Lunch Act, forming the National School Lunch Program, which\u2014in turn\u2014paved the way for the creation of other programs like school breakfast,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating National School Lunch Week And School Nutrition Staff - 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