| April 30, 2009 | Glendale News Press | Aid won’t fund meals | ||
| April 28, 2009 | WAFF | School lunches going up for one county system | ||
| April 27, 2009 | Star-telegram | Mansfield school district looks to raise lunch prices 25 cents | ||
| April 28, 2009 | Virginian-Pilot | Chesapeake School Board eyes school lunch price hike | ||
| April 27, 2009 | Times-Picayune | St. Charles Parish school meals to cost more | ||
| April 27, 2009 | Daily Camera | Boulder Valley looks at higher meal prices | ||
| April 24, 2009 | Daily Sentinel | Lunch prices to increase at county schools | ||
| April 22, 2009 | Wichita Eagle | Meal prices to rise at Wichita schools | ||
| April 16, 2009 | State Journal | Lunch prices likely to jump 50 cents | ||
| April 10, 2009 | Southern Maryland Online | Money Woes Plague Maryland School Meal Programs | ||
| September 3, 2008 | Niagara Gazette | SCHOOLS: Costly commodities hit the lunch room | ||
| September 3, 2008 | Albany Times Union | Rising food costs bite into school lunches | ||
| September 1, 2008 | Pioneer Press | So long, cheesy bread: Schools cut back to battle rising food, fuel costs | ||
| September 1, 2008 | Daily Press | Schools work to keep meals healthy, cheap | ||
| August 31, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Trade watermelon for a prune? | ||
| August 25, 2008 | Ithaca Journal | Squeezing the juice out of an empty carton | ||
| August 24, 2008 | NY Times | As Food Costs Rise, So Do School Lunch Prices | ||
| August 18, 2008 | USA Today | Could bumpy economy lead to slumping education? | ||
| August 17, 2008 | Kansas City Star | School districts increase meal prices to cope with higher food costs | ||
| August 16, 2008 | Sandusky Register | Schools feel pinch of food, fuel prices | ||
| August 13, 2008 | The Explorer | Schools cope with pricier food | ||
| August 12, 2008 | The Missourian | Lunch prices at Columbia public schools to increase | ||
| August 12, 2008 | Indiana Gazette | PURCHASE LINE: Cafeteria prices increased | ||
| August 10, 2008 | Hartford Courant | Many Schools Raising Lunch Prices | ||
| August 10, 2008 | Cherry Hill Courier Post | Public schools scramble to cut costs | ||
| August 9, 2008 | Morning News | Eaten Up: School Lunch Price Soars | ||
| July 24, 2008 | US News and World Report | Schools Battle Rising Gas and Food Prices | ||
| July 21, 2008 | Times News | Schools' food costs hard to digest | ||
| July 20, 2008 | Hartford Courant | School lunch prices on rise | ||
| July 20, 2008 | SF Chronicle | Cafeteria crisis: Food prices outpace schools | ||
| July 16, 2008 | Payson Roundup | School lunches will cost students 25 cents extra | ||
| July 16, 2008 | Star Herald | KCS change cafeteria prices | ||
| July 10, 2008 | The Citizen | School lunch prices will rise by 25 cents for the 2008-09 school year | ||
| July 10, 2008 | Medill Reports | Fuel for food | ||
| July 6, 2008 | Albany Times Union | Schools feel food pinch | ||
| July 1, 2008 | East Valley Tribune | Schools stretching their dough | ||
| July 1, 2008 | South West Review | School lunch prices raised | ||
| June 29, 2008 | Boston Globe | There is no $2.50 school lunch | ||
| June 27, 2008 | Eagle-Tribune | Rising food prices hit school cafeterias | ||
| June 27, 2008 | Wilton Villager | Food costs, environmental concerns drive up school lunches | ||
| June 27, 2008 | The Enterprise | Lunch prices going up in Port Arthur ISD | ||
| June 26, 2008 | Virginian-Pilot | Portsmouth proposes to raise lunch cost up to 40 cents | ||
| June 25, 2008 | Watertown Daily Times | Districts Raising Meal Prices | ||
| June 24, 2008 | Patriot Ledger | Rockland school officials debate higher lunch prices | ||
| June 24, 2008 | Christian Science Monitor | Across U.S., schools feel budget pinch | ||
| June 23, 2008 | El Paso Times | Rising food costs feed county school districts' calls for meal-price increases | ||
| June 22, 2008 | Press-Enterprise | Cafeteria foods eat budgets | ||
| June 22, 2008 | Rio Rancho Observer | School lunches go up | ||
| June 20, 2008 | North County Times | Costs rising for school lunches | ||
| June 19, 2008 | Wall Street Journal | Yellow Buses Put Schools in the Red | ||
| June 19, 2008 | St Peter Herald | Food service affects 2008-09 budget | ||
| June 18, 2008 | Winchester Star | Frederick School Board approves increase in cost of school lunches | ||
| June 18, 2008 | The Advertiser | Lafayette Parish School Board to vote on meal price hike | ||
| June 17, 2008 | East Valley Tribune | Soaring costs forcing Valley schools to change lunch menu | ||
| June 16, 2008 | Times Herald Record | Now on districts' plates: price hikes for lunches | ||
| June 15, 2008 | Jacksonville Daily Progress | Bullard ISD approves food bids | ||
| June 14, 2008 | Richmond Times Dispatch | Higher food prices force changes at schools | ||
| June 10, 2008 | Allentown Morning Call | There's no free lunch; maybe not even a cheap one | ||
| June 9, 2008 | MSNBC | High food costs hit school lunch trays | ||
| June 8, 2008 | Jacksonville Daily Progress | RISD trustees consider cafeteria bids | ||
| June 3, 2008 | The News Star | Ouachita School Board agonizing over increasing food prices | ||
| June 3, 2008 | Salisbury Post | School cafeterias cutting corners to offset rising prices | ||
| June 3, 2008 | Mail Tribune | School meal costs to rise | ||
| June 2, 2008 | Valley News Dispatch | Schools swallow hard, raise lunch prices | ||
| June 2, 2008 | Miami Herald | School lunches suffer under price pressure | ||
| May 29, 2008 | Pantagraph | Climbing food, fuel costs may raise District 87 lunch fees | ||
| May 26, 2008 | Milford Daily News | Rising food prices pinch school cafeterias | ||
| May 26, 2008 | Florida Today | School lunch prices could rise | ||
| May 18, 2008 | Dallas Morning News | Dallas-area schools pinching pennies as gas, food costs rise | ||
| May 7, 2008 | Sun Sentinel | Soaring food costs forcing changes in your child's school menu | ||
| May 5, 2008 | CNN | School kids feel the bite of high food prices | ||
| May 2, 2008 | CBS 5 | Rising Food Prices Push School Lunch Prices Higher | ||
| April 27, 2008 | St Louis Post Dispatch | Skyrocketing food costs force some students to pay more for lunch this fall | ||
| April 21, 2008 | Birmingham News | Rising food prices forcing schools to get creative at lunchtime | ||
| April 18, 2008 | The Ledger | Food Costs to Drive Up School Lunch Prices | ||
| April 14, 2008 | Washington Post | Schools Get A Lesson in Lunch Line Economics | ||
| March 25, 2008 | Salem News | Rising food prices worry school cafeteria directors | ||
| March 15, 2008 | Cullman Times | School standards, costs may increase lunchroom prices |