Early exposure to universal free meals improves school attendance, study shows
The study found that kindergarten students who received universal free meals at school had better attendance than their peers who didn’t receive free meals.
A new study authored by researchers with Syracuse University’s Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health showed that early student exposure to universal free meals improves school attendance.
The study looked at 132,353 New York City kindergarten students from 2009 to 2017 and followed them through third grade.