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The US Department of Agriculture is offering $50 million in grants to help get healthy food into more US schools, the Washington Post reports.
The grants, part of the department's Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, "will foster innovation in the school food marketplace to get a wider variety of healthy, appealing foods into the marketplace and onto kids' lunch trays," according to a USDA press release.
The grants, which will be awarded later this year, "will increase collaboration between schools, food producers and suppliers, and other partners to develop nutritious, appetizing school meals for kids," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says.
The grants, which will be awarded to organizations including Boise State University and the Illinois Public Health Institute, are part of the Biden-Harris Administration's plan to get 9 million more kids eating healthy meals by 2024, according to the press release.
In addition to the grants, the USDA is proposing a change that would give more schools the option to provide healthy meals for all students at no cost.
"Many schools and even some entire states have successfully provided free meals to all their students," Vilsack says.
"We applaud their leadership in nourishing children and hope this proposed change will make it possible for more schools and states to follow suit."
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