Federal pandemic funding for universal free school meals is ending, and income-based eligibility requirements are back.

Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd introduced the bill in order to save money for parents and embarrassment for some students.

DCPS is paying more per meal than any of the other school systems that the D.C. Auditor’s office profiled.

Chartwells Dining Services up and quit last July.

“We recognized that when our schools are closed, many of our students don’t eat,” said Chancellor of DC Public Schools Kaya Henderson.

DCPS hosted a pre-proposal/bid conference today to replace Chartwells Dining Services.

Now DCPS has to find a new lunch provider for the fall.

The mother of a Baltimore second-grader is accusing her son’s teacher of taking his lunch money and being physically abusive, the New York Daily News reported.

A couple weeks after a study graded D.C. Public Schools’ school breakfast program as the best in the country, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) dropped in on a downtown elementary school during the lunch hour to inspect the meals being served. The school breakfast study cited in particular the 2010 Healthy Schools Act, which Cheh shepherded.

Dish of the week: Moose Reading all the biographical information about presumptive VP nominee Sarah Palin, one thing sticks out to foodies. She seems to have a thing for hunting and eating moose. That gets a person thinking, what does moose taste like and where can I get it? According to Henry David Thoreau, “It tasted like tender beef, with perhaps more flavor, – sometimes like veal.” So maybe moose burgers make sense, but given…