school food
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School Nutrition Association steps up for its 'patron,' the dairy industry
The School Nutrition Association exists to "advance good nutrition for all children." So why is it promoting sugary milk drinks in school cafeterias?
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D.C. Public Schools partners with food-service agency that teaches ex-cons to cook
The District of Columbia is about to embark on what may be the nation's most unorthodox public-school food program: meals made from scratch, using locally grown ingredients, by a charitable social-services agency whose primary mission is feeding the homeless and teaching ex-offenders how to cook.
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School lunch reform act creeps toward passage
The "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" has passed the Senate. But time is running out.
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Book review: 'How to Grow a School Garden'
'How to Grow a School Garden' is a practical guide to getting a school garden off the ground.
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School lunch reform still alive — but in critical condition
The school lunch reform bill is finally moving in Congress -- but perhaps not fast enough to save it.
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Sodexo to pay New York $20 million for school-meal rebate fraud
Sodexo, one of the world's largest food service companies, has agreed to settle complaints that it fraudulently pocketed rebates from food manufacturers that it was supposed to turn over to some 21 public school districts and the State University of New York
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Chefs and parents plot a lunch revolution at one D.C. public school
A group of chefs and parents plan to turn Tyler Elementary’s kitchen-cum-makeshift-office into a place to cook actual food.(Ed Bruske photos) A group of prominent Washington, D.C.-area restaurant chefs has volunteered to introduce a novel concept in school-food service to one Capitol Hill elementary school: collaborating with parents to take over kitchen operations on a nonprofit basis, […]
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Has Congress run out of time for school lunch and food safety?
The reauthorization of the Childhood Nutrition Act, which includes the National School Lunch Program, took a major step forward today. The House Education and Labor Committee “marked up” the bill, which means it considered a set of amendments with the intention of moving the bill out of committee and to the House floor for a […]
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Are kickbacks from Kellogg and others driving school-food purchasing?
D.C. Public Schools in the last two years have taken in more than $1 million in corporate rebates — referred to by some as “kickbacks” — paid by giant food manufacturers as an inducement to place their brands on kids’ cafeteria trays at school. Documents I obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that […]