Congress Adjourns Without Passing Child Nutrition Bill

Education Week (10/18, Samuels) reported, "Congress adjourned for the November elections without reauthorizing the federal law that controls the nation's school meals program" yet "school nutrition and anti-hunger advocates say that delay could be a blessing in disguise." According to Education Week, "Two competing versions of the Child Nutrition Act were introduced in the US Senate and the House of Representatives, but the Senate version is further along." However, some advocates "don't want to pass the Senate measure unchanged because the 10-year bill would offset its proposed spending increases in part by cutting $2.2 billion from food stamps."