Furthermore,
if SNA's current request for school meal waiver language in the 2015 appropriations bill is successful, schools obtaining such waivers are very likely to return to the old system, causing harm to the produce industry.
If SNA is successful, Big Food will not incur the considerable expense of reformulating products to further increase whole grain content and lower sodium, all while pleasing kids» notoriously picky palates.
It's important to note, however, (as I did here), that even
if SNA's legislative agenda is driven by the food industry, SNA's members» concerns, such as increased food waste and cost, may still be legitimate.
If the SNA lobbies for permanent blockage of the standards, he thinks they will be «playing with fire.»
If the SNA were really concerned with «advancing good nutrition» for kids, wouldn't they be more focused on promoting these kinds of strategies to their 55,000 members, and less eager to just dump the mandatory fruit and veg requirement into the trash bin?
But here's what isn't «free:» the future healthcare costs for a generation of children which has been nutritionally shortchanged,
if the SNA has its way.
It remains to be seen
if SNA's efforts to weaken school meal standards are successful, something we may not be able to fully assess until the Child Nutrition Reauthorization is completed in 2015.
If the SNA won't take a stand on this issue, the rest of us need to get our voices heard.
If SNA management purchases shares in line with the averages of the past three years, it would repurchase $ 173 million next year.
Not exact matches
Even
if we assume that
SNA loses its current tax deductions and just pays the new statutory rate of 21 %, that would be worth an additional $ 87 million based on 2017 NOPAT, a 13 % increase and a bump up in NOPAT margin to 18.5 % from the current 16.3 %.
If you were unable to attend the conference, never fear — you can access presentations from ANC 2014 online at the
SNA website.
This characterization,
if true, would provide the food - industry - backed
SNA with a strong justification for rolling back several key nutritional standards in Congress in the coming year.
If it's National School Lunch Week she's using those
SNA resources to promote it — everyone in her school will know it's NSLW!
«
If you're thinking of going to college — online or on campus — apply for SNA scholarships, especially if you're going to continue in school foodservice!&raqu
If you're thinking of going to college — online or on campus — apply for
SNA scholarships, especially
if you're going to continue in school foodservice!&raqu
if you're going to continue in school foodservice!»
While it's true that our letter relates to the activities of an organization of which Nancy and I are not members, let's not forget that
SNA's lobbying efforts,
if successful, will have an impact extending well beyond the organization's «family» of 55,000 school food workers.
If you aren't reading the materials
SNA puts out for us, you might miss it!
(
If you're not a current or former
SNA member, please don't sign this letter — no matter how much you want to help this cause!)
If you are a current or former
SNA member who believes your leadership is on the wrong track, please take a moment to sign and share this letter.
Imagine the difference
if all 55,000 [
SNA] members contributed just a nickel a day.
If Republicans, many of whom are allied with
SNA in this effort, win control of the Senate this fall, we may well see decades of work on school food reform go up in smoke.
If you are a current or former member of the
SNA and agree with the foregoing, please sign the letter by clicking this link and filling in the necessary information.
Over and over again we hear School Nutrition Association members say things like, «
If it weren't for my director, I wouldn't have applied for my scholarship,» and «My manager told me about
SNA, and encouraged me to become a member.»
The School Nutrition Association's Twitter handle is @schoollunch — even
if you didn't know what «
SNA» is, the Twitter handle alone gives you a good idea of the subject area.
If you missed our recent Partners for BIC webinar about the grant opportunity, don't worry — the archived version is now online, along with other OnDemand webinars from
SNA.
If you need to confirm
SNA membership, call 1-800-877-8822.
And
if you have your own thoughts on
SNA's recommendations, please share them below.
School food service directors,
if you dare publicly disagree with the policy direction of the School Nutrition Association (
SNA) you are in for an unpleasant surprise.
The
SNA is also asking USDA to extend the comment period on the new competitive food rules which,
if they go into effect as planned on July 1st, will represent the first meaningful regulation of snack foods on school campuses, everything from vending machine offerings to the items offered in cafeteria «a la carte» lines.
SNA reserves the right to cancel this meeting
if minimum attendance is not met by April 8, 2018.
If you need a District or School Profile Sheet to complete and bring with you for your visits on Capitol Hill, call (800) 877-8822 and ask the
SNA Service Center to fax one to you.
Please note:
If you are planning to attend an
SNA webinar as group or staff please be sure to register everyone individually.
But
SNA's «baby with the bathwater» approach is so extreme, it does make me wonder
if Woldow is right when she speculates that
SNA's corporate sponsors are actually behind this whole grain request.
Fast - forward to today:
SNA is standing shoulder to shoulder with House Republicans, pushing to grant schools waivers from the requirements
if they are losing money and aiming to relax the standards when the law is reauthorized next year.
At the same time, Gene White, a former head of the California school - lunch program and
SNA president, said in an interview that she had signed the former
SNA presidents» letter defending the healthier school meals because she couldn't possibly urge developing countries to enact nutrition standards
if the United States pulls back on its own.
If you're a local or state
SNA chapter leader, don't miss this annual interactive, informative and fun event featuring topics such as developing a strong leadership team, planning effective and engaging meetings, building membership and more.
If you've been following the fight over school food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (
SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal standards.
Finally,
if you are a past or current
SNA member and would like to stand with these 86 brave men and women, Nancy and I have created a nearly identical version of the letter which now speaks to the upcoming CNR.
If you're an
SNA member who feels the same way, please consider signing and sharing this open letter.
If a determination has not yet been communicated by the state agency to
SNA, the chart has been left blank.
If you're a current or former
SNA member who supports the healthier school food standards, please sign and share this open letter.
In the meantime,
if you're a current or former
SNA member who would like to join the 86 food service directors who've spoken out against
SNA's legislative agenda, you can sign this version of the open letter, which has been slightly edited to address the upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
If you receive
SNA's Smart Brief newsletter you may recognize this story out of Holmen, Wisconsin, where students will add «raising chickens» to their efforts to bring more local food to cafeteria trays.
Earlier this year, the
SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement,
if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.
If you haven't already, make sure you read our profiles on each of this year's five Heroes and check out the video profiles
SNA created for each Hero as well.
If these 86 members of
SNA would like to share their success, maybe program operators would be more supportive of the stringent guidelines.
If you are attending
SNA's Legislative Action Conference (LAC), you will want to attend the Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes.
One additional item,
if the state affiliate makes a transfer to
SNA PAC it needs to be done by money order, cashier's check or personal check.
If you're traveling to Long Beach (LBG) it can be as low as $ 1,600 for a family of four (two adults, two kids) or approximately $ 1,900 if you're flying into John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, which is slightly closer to Anaheim than Long Beac
If you're traveling to Long Beach (LBG) it can be as low as $ 1,600 for a family of four (two adults, two kids) or approximately $ 1,900
if you're flying into John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, which is slightly closer to Anaheim than Long Beac
if you're flying into John Wayne Airport (
SNA) in Orange County, which is slightly closer to Anaheim than Long Beach.
For example, find out
if the student is used to the assistance of an
SNA to complete tasks