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Stop summer meals for children not in summer school

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 10, p. 303. Written by Daren Bakst.

Stop summer meals for children not in summer school

The document says “should”Who acts: USDAHow: internal managementp. 303 in the PDF
What the document says

“the USDA should not provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 303

The chapter states that pupils can currently get meals from schools in summer even if they are not attending summer school, which it says has in effect turned school meals into a federal catering program.

What the document actually says

“the USDA should not provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 303
That sentence, in plain words

In summer, feed only the children who are in class.

What this is about

Some children get meals at school in summer. They do not have to be in class. The book says only those in class should get them.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The nearest candidate amends the school lunch statute, but only to allow whole milk and to add food allergy content to training for food service staff. No indexed document conditions summer meals on a pupil attending summer school, and none changes the summer food service rules at all. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 303.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Stop summer meals for children not in summer school,” Project 2025, chapter 10, p. 303. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch10-no-summer-meals-without-school/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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