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PAD-77-6 1 (1977-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacnc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 03051 - [A2093200) The National School Lunch Program: Is It Working? PAD-77-6; B-111810. Jujy 26, 1977. 137 pp. + 3 appendices (28 pp.). Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staatst Comptroller General. Issue Area: Income Security Prograss: Program Effectiveness (1302); Program Evaluation Systems: New Techniques and Standards (2602);Food: Domestic Food Assistance Programs (1707). Contact: Program Analysis Div. Budget Function: Agriculture: Farm Income Stabilization (351); Income Security: Public Assistance and Other Income Supplements (604); Health: Health Research and Education (552). Organization Concerned: Department of Agriculture; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Congress. Authority: National School Lunch Act of 1946 (P.L. 79-396). Agricultural Act of 1949, sec. 416 (7 U.S.C. 1431). Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (P.L. 89-642). Child Nutrition Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-433). P.L. 92-153. P.L. 87-823, sec. 11. P.L. 74-320. P.L. 91-248. P.L. 93-326. P.L. 94-105. 85 Stat. 419. The National School Lunch Program is designed to safeguard schoolchild health by improving and/or maintaining levels of nutrition and to strengthen the agricultural economy by stimulating food demand. Findings/Conclusions: The school lunch program provides adequately for the large-scale feeding of children, but it could be much more effective and efficient than it is. Although studies show that the school lunch, when paired with a nutritional supplement or with the school breakfast, can affect the nutritional levels of schoolchildren, their findings about how the lunch itself affects nutritionally deprived and nutritionally adequate participants are inconclusive. There are consistent indications that the program has strengthened overall demand for farm products, although the possibility of a conflict between the program's agricultural and nutritional provisions was noted. Shifting eating habits and needs over the past 30 years suggest that the program's objectives should be reassessed. Recommendations: Congress should: provide policy guidance indicating specifically what the purpose of the program should be and have the program evaluated accordingly; define the priority of each purpose and direct how the program is to be evaluated; require the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to assist the Department of Agriculture in determining the program's contribution to children's health; review Agriculture's program evaluation plan to be sure it mill support the needs of congressional oversight; and require Agriculture to report to the Congress the results of its evaluation. (SC)

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