At Governor Sanford B Dole Middle School, 11% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 25% scored at or above that level for reading. The school’s minority student ...

The school lunches were funded by the USDA McGovern-Dole program, named after former U.S. Sens. George McGovern and Bob Dole. As a recent CRS post put it: “Beginning in July, more than 780,000 ...

T he McGovern-Dole Food for Education program was created in 2002 around a simple but profound idea: that the abundance of American agriculture could help feed hungry children across the world ...

And the program offers more than just food. It supports teacher training, school infrastructure, clean water, and health and nutrition education — helping build stronger, more resilient communities.