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Chef Jesse Houston's nautical takeover (complete with a mural of an octopus) of a former elementary school has become a hangout for Fondren District locals, who sit at the long bar, slurping down $ 1 oysters on the half shell during happy hour and sipping one of the 30 beers on tap.

And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the foAnd, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the foand negative student reactions to the food.

The piece doesn't offer much in the way of solutions, but I thought it did a great job of capturing the current, entrenched problems in school food, at least in large, urban districts like L.A. and Houston.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you... [Continue reading]

Bettina Siegel, a blogger and attorney who also serves on the Houston school district's nutrition subcommittee, said that Miller's announcement was unnecessary political grandstanding.

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In early 2010, Siegel became interested in improving the food in her children's school district, Houston ISD, and soon after launched The Lunch Tray, a blog focusing on «kids and food, in school and out.»

KT: Never in a million years did I think I would have made an impact in districts and schools with so many students in and around the Houston area in just over a year.

The Lunch Tray Former lawyer and mom of two Bettina Elias Siegel takes on the Houston Independent School District (and pink slime!)

Building a better nugget and adding more «whole grain» to pizza may sound like an improvement but what Dallas and Houston and every other school district needs to do is step back and look at the big picture!

* In a forthcoming post I want to talk about a related issue — the frequency with which pizza appears on middle and high school menus in my Houston district.

One district might have a gleaming, well - equipped central food preparation facility like Houston's (at the cost of $ 51 million to taxpayers) and another might have school «kitchens» that look a lot more like a janitor's closet.

Indeed, for a while Houston and other districts were having real trouble sourcing any fresh fruit at all, from any part of the country, due to the higher demand created by the new school food regulations, which resulted in USDA actually canceling confirmed orders for commodity fresh fruit.

That's a great goal but Houston ISD, arguably one of the leading districts in the country when it comes to improving school food, has been struggling for years to source local produce and it has yet to meet its stated goal of sourcing 25 % of the produce from local farms.

Here in Houston we've already implemented the same program district - wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, «in - class breakfast» means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and bring it into their classrooms to eat at their desks as the school day begins.

According to those officials present, despite the fact that Houston is the seventh largest school district in the country and therefore a major consumer of milk, the profit margins for dairies supplying schools (as opposed to private entities) is extremely low and would be wiped out by the manufacturing costs associated with making such changes.

My school district here in Houston is doing a lot of things right, but it's still selling garbage like this to our middle and high school kids every single day:

Houston ISD, the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest in the nation, recently announced its new «Lean and Green» initiative: offering its students meatless school meal entrees on Mondays.

In making this decision, NYC schools follow the lead of Boston, Memphis and Miami - Dade, along with districts which never used LBT or which ceased using it long before our Change.org petition was launched — including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and my own district, Houston.

I am the Chairperson of the Nutrition subcommittee of the School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) for Houston ISD, the nation's seventh largest school district and the largest school district in School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) for Houston ISD, the nation's seventh largest school district and the largest school district in school district and the largest school district in school district in Texas.

One district might have a gleaming, well - equipped central food preparation facility like Houston's (at the cost of $ 51 million to taxpayers) and another might have school «kitchens» that -LSB-...]

Meanwhile, Houston ISD does a brisk business in items like pizza and corn dogs, «carnival» foods the district is terrified to discontinue lest student participation drop and the entire school lunch program sink into the red.

On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle published a front page story about improvements to school food in Houston ISD and surrounding school districts.

Like many large, urban school districts, Houston ISD does almost all of its cooking at a huge central kitchen, with the food then trucked to our 300 individual schools for reheating and other final preparation.

The writer is a school food advocate who blogs at The Lunch Tray and a member of the Houston Independent School District Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Commschool food advocate who blogs at The Lunch Tray and a member of the Houston Independent School District Nutrition Services Parent Advisory CommSchool District Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee.

My district had just ended its 20 - year relationship with Aramark, and in the post I set forth all the reasons why I believe Houston ISD could be a true national model for healthy school food — but only under the right leadership.

Using their considerable market power, some districts have been able to force dairies to make lower sugar flavored milk, and I've been told that my own Houston school district (7th largest in the country) is embarking on a similar effort.

I then sent Jimmy through my Houston district's elementary school lunch line over the course of a single week, letting him pick and choose from the week's menu as he wished (lots of chocolate milk, tacos, burgers and the rest).

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school district (Houston ISD) and presumably elsewhere in the country.

I'm back from summer vacation in time to share some nice news: Houston ISD, the seventh largest district in the country, has announced that it's taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide universal (free) school breakfast and lunch to every student at 166 of its schools, regardless of economic status, and without the need for meal applications or other paperwork.

The Arizona - born chancellor's credentials include a masters in education; work at four school districts, including Houston during last year's Hurricane Harvey disaster; and he speaks both Spanish and English — a key during Mayor Bill de Blasio's search for replacing Carmen Fariña, the departing chancellor.

Ms. Martin had also taught Mr. Pagourtzis's sister; she said she had heard the high school had been hard on her, and that «she was bullied so terribly at the high school that she transferred to Clear Creek,» a school district up the road toward Houston.

The son of a metalworker and a hairdresser, Carranza, 51, has been the head of the Houston Independent School District since 2016 and led San Francisco's system for four years prior to that.

Since August 2016, Carranza, 51, has been serving as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student populSchool District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student popDistrict — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student populschool district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student popdistrict in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student popdistrict in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student population.

Houston's schools, which are equally minority and poor, perform well relative to other urban school districts.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sdistrict of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

Houston and Los Angeles, the sixth and second largest school districts in the United States, respectively, each use the Stanford 9 test.

Through such initiatives as Voces de los Padres and others, the Houston Independent School District is successfully rebuilding the «public» trust in public education.»

Authorities in Houston are investigating allegations that as many as 90 bilingual - education teachers with almost no English skills and no college degree are teaching in the Houston Independent School District.

The school district «operates from a core ideology that includes our strategic intent «to earn so much respect from the citizens of Houston that HISD becomes their K - 12 system of choice» and a set of core values that defines who we are,» De la Isla told Education World.

States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held accountable for student outcomes.

In Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, the coefficients of variation were nearly always more than 0.15, meaning that one - third of the schools in these districts had spending levels that deviated from their district's average by 15 percent (or $ 225,000 for a school of 500 when average spending is $ 3,000 per pupil).

Not far from the heart of Houston, unlikely alliance between a school district and nearby charter schools is bringing the best of both worlds to area students.

Across the nation there are 608 school districts that have at least one magnet school; the top three school districts have over 100 magnet schools (Los Angeles Unified = 161, Miami - Dade = 107, and Houston ISD = 102).

Houston ranged between 0.2 and 0.25, except for one year, while Dallas had the highest levels of inequality, hovering around 0.3 until the 2000 — 01 school year, when it experienced a dramatic drop in the level of inequality in the district, indicating that a greater percentage of schools were funded at or near the district's average allocation per pupil.

Other urban districts, including Denver, Hartford, New York, and Spring Branch in Houston, have also embraced a school portfolio strategy with meaningful cross-sector collaboration.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

When we examined noncategorical per - pupil funding in the state's four largest school districts — Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston — the levels of inequity were even higher and each district was remarkably different from the others.

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.