April 13, 2021
On April 6, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) published updated state guidance on Coronavirus Pandemic EBT (P-EBT).

On April 9, Burbio published an update to its "K-12 School Opening" Tracker that displays the national percentage of K-12 students currently attending school in a traditional, virtual or hybrid setting.
Since last March, the school nutrition team at Utica Community Schools in Michigan has hit the milestone of 1.8 million school meals served to students since school closures.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has extended the deadline to apply for a Team Nutrition Training Grant for School Meal Recipe Development.
SNA is hosting a series of webinars addressing COVID-19 to support school nutrition operators. If you missed a particular webinar, catch up with SNA’s on-demand webinars.  

Louisiana Fit Kids is a partnership between the Louisiana Department of Education and Pennington Biomedical Research Center that provides information on current childhood obesity trends for school administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, child nutrition program staff and other stakeholders.

SNA has partnered with the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) to provide SNA members with the tools and skills they need to build relationships with legislators and policymakers. CMF works with both citizen groups and Members of Congress (MOC) to promote transparency, accountability and a strong dialogue between elected officials and constituents.
On April 7, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) visited Milford High School in Highland, Mich., to observe and participate in school meal distribution.
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Tuesday Morning is a weekly Web-based policy and awareness newsletter of the School Nutrition Association. The newsletter provides members with up-to-date federal legislative news as well as a sampling of child nutrition program media coverage. Additionally, state legislative activity is listed.