Sentences with phrase «sna said»

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

The SNA says it was told it [more funding] was out of the question.

The SNA says the feds need to take a second look and test the idea before forcing schools to raise prices nationwide.

On its website, the SNA says the free «webinar,» entitled, «Keep Flavored Milk from Dropping Out of School,» is being offered «in partnership with the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP),» and that participants will «learn how to share» the study's findings.

Not exact matches

Finally, you say «the larger good food community needs to stop demonizing SNA.»

«I feel like SNA has opened up opportunities for me to get to know people, people who live many states away, but do the same thing that I do,» said Keshia.

Anderberg says SNA support has been crucial to her professional development.

See what fellow SNA members had to say about their Foundation scholarships:

«It was a good experience from the start,» says Will of his SNA membership.

Pointing out that the new professional standards will mean more school nutrition professionals pursing a college degree, Anderberg said there is no time like the present to consider going back to school — and SNA is there to help.

Montague told me that only the current board speaks for the SNA and she seemed to imply that the past presidents are out of touch, in that she said you «aren't speaking to the members.»

But to the extent one can rely on the impressions of school food directors (as opposed to actual measurement), the KSHFP survey bolsters the SNA's position: More than half of the directors surveyed reported increased plate waste for fruits, and 75 percent said that the amount of vegetable waste had increased.

All I'm saying here is: why isn't SNA of all organizations asking for all of that, instead of seeking to roll back nutrition standards that are scientifically sound and desperately needed in an era of both childhood obesity and childhood hunger?

In a press release issued last Friday, SNA President Jean Ronnei said the organization «was pleased to work alongside USDA in crafting practical solutions to help school nutrition professionals in their ongoing efforts to improve school meal programs for students.

«I have an assistantship at KSU while I'm going to school, and I work for the Center,» said Watkins, who became an SNA member in 2013.

You say SNA is «asking for is more time until programs are funded,» but SNA's own spokesperson, Diane Pratt - Heavner, has clearly told me that asking for more money is not on SNA's agenda at all.

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.»

You say that you DID ask SNA's leadership to seek more funding from Congress, but clearly your voice wasn't heard as this is not the approach SNA chose.

Sharpe says it was a casual conversation about Vision of Grace at an SNA dinner which led to her nomination.

And because SNA does such a great job of promoting scholarships through emails and their website, said Mark, the information he needed — and the application form — were already at his fingertips.

Diane Agrell, director of food service for the Winneconne Community School District and president of SNA - WI, said there have also been improvements to school lunches.

SNA Past President Dora Rivas, RD, LD, SNS, is executive foodservice director of child and nutrition services for the Dallas Independent School District, and she says that there has never been a better time to begin advocating for BIC service.

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

According to a PowerPoint presentation from the SNA's 2013 Legislative Action Conference, called «The Perpetual Problem of Unpaid Meal Charges», the USDA says student nutrition programs are under no obligation to feed children whose parents will not pay.

An SNA member for the last decade, Bradford joined the association when she became a cafeteria manager, and says SNF scholarships are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the resources available to members like herself.

Perdue said he wants SNA to help USDA make school nutrition standards better.

The secretary said he recently invited Lynn Harvey, SNA's new president, and the organization's incoming board to come to Washington and give the department «direct, specific advice on how we can make the best rules going forward possible.»

While the SNA has told me it's not «taking a position» on this pending legislation, it certainly hasn't said anything to oppose it.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.

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.

Nineteen former SNA presidents wrote to appropriators last week urging them to reject calls for a waiver — a break in ranks that was painful but necessary, signers said.

She said many SNA members actually refused to give the position papers to Hill staff during their meetings because they disagreed with the agenda.

«Proponents of the regulations are trying hard to explain away SNA's efforts by spinning theories about industry influence,» said Schmidt, in a recent open letter to members.

SNA, he said, is isolated on the issue.

But the SNA's spokesperson, Diane Pratt - Heavner, said the organization wouldn't seek a funding increase because such a request would be a nonstarter on Capitol Hill.

Houston is also a longtime, active member of SNA, and has held numerous leadership positions, including Southwest Regional Director and President of Texas SNA; again, Jody credits Applebaum's influence, saying:

And the support we get from [SNA and SNF] is just amazing; we can't say enough good things about it.

When asked to describe her former colleague, SNA past president Shirley Watkins had the following to say: «Kathleen brought this focus on research to the table in the 1980s, and having that kind of foresight and vision at that time was incredible — she was so far advanced to make that happen.»

Oh, so that's what she means when she says in her editorial that «she's spoken to» SNA members.

«SNA really promotes the importance of research, of building networks and using resources — connecting people on the ground with those things at the state and national level to create opportunities,» said Lacy.

Other SNA members should absolutely take the time to fill out a scholarship application, said Sarah.

Having been in and around the school nutrition profession since the age of five — Laura's mother was very active in the Mississippi chapter of SNA — Bounds knows what it takes to be an effective manager, but says that Sandy is much more than just an excellent employee.

«My director at Blue Valley was [SNF Chair] Sandy Ford, and she is clearly very involved in SNA, and she encouraged me to work with the Kansas organization,» said Chellberg.

Sykes is excited to see her friend Becky Domokos - Bays installed as SNA President, while Dodge says she'll seek inspiration on the Exhibit Hall floor.

«When I started [in school nutrition] I had some really good friends in the area that said, «You need to go to SNA and join SNA.

«She encouraged me — as she encourages all of us — to become SNA members, and she's just always in the know with everything going in on school nutrition,» said Dodge.

«The added cost to taxpayers for the SNA program has gone on for far too long,» said Ortt.

The spherical structure of the SNAs is the ideal architecture for delivering nucleic acids into cells for gene regulation, Mirkin said.

«We designed a novel delivery method for miR - 182 using SNAs,» Stegh said.