Sentences with phrase «advocate about school food»

Now that my kids are no longer in the public school system, a few people have asked whether I'll continue to write and advocate about school food reform.

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What advice can you give to other hopeful advocates trying to bring about change in the food industry, or even in their own schools?

In 2009, Bellingham Public Schools in Washington state brought together a coalition of district employees, parents, students, foodservice workers, community organizations and food advocates to talk about school food.

In this article from The Huffington Post, author Chris Elam talks about the launch of our groundbreaking new website advocating for major reform in school food, The Lunch Box.

That said, advocates also need to work on their talking points about what school food should look like and how we realistically get there in a world where most people don't seem to care.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

Not only did DCPS lose a leader who advocated for more nutritious school food, but the lack of transparency surrounding Mr. Mills» departure raises concerns about the ability to create a financially sustainable and nutritionally sound future for DCPS food services.

Not only did DCPS lose a leader who advocated for more nutritional school food, but the lack of transparency surrounding Mr. Mills» departure leaves us concerned about a financially sustainable and nutritional rich future for DCPS food services.

This is a serious challenge for school food advocates, and we'll be talking more about it in the weeks and months ahead.

In January of this year, I and fellow food advocate Nancy Hueherngarth launched a Change.org petition seeking to prevent the inclusion of Chinese - processed poultry products in school meals due to our serious concerns about China's food safety record.

But as it turns out, I'd inadvertently launched a blog that was (partially) about school food right during the 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), the springboard from which First lady Michelle Obama and a host of advocates were trying to improve outdated school meal nutrition standards.

She is an almost - native of Colorado, and continues to speak and advocate for children with food allergies at the state level and in her school district's Food Allergy Task Force, in addition to writing a blog about living with food allergies on AllergicChild.food allergies at the state level and in her school district's Food Allergy Task Force, in addition to writing a blog about living with food allergies on AllergicChild.Food Allergy Task Force, in addition to writing a blog about living with food allergies on AllergicChild.food allergies on AllergicChild.com.

School food reform advocates, myself included, are deeply worried about these developments and we've begun to ratchet up our response to SNA's efforts on social media.

Note: Among the many things I love about San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow is how generous she is with her advice and, more importantly, how very practical and straightforward that advice always is.

Boundas and I had talked about the fact that, having invested $ 52 million in a huge central kitchen, Houston is unlikely to ever return to cooking food on site at each school, the sort of scratch cooking Boundas advocates.

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Last year, food advocate Nancy Huehnergarth and I launched a Change.org petition seeking to prevent the inclusion of Chinese - processed poultry in school meals due to the many serious concerns about China's food safety record.

Ivy Ken, a DCPS parent and longtime advocate for more healthful food in schools, said she is «thrilled» that the lawsuit is bringing to light concerns people have had about the food program that were often dismissed by District officials.

Since school food programs are largely supported by the federal government, the expanded program would bring in an additional $ 24 million in federal and state funds, bringing their total to about $ 60 million, advocates have said.

But Nicola Edwards, who works for California Food Policy Advocates, told LA School Report that a recent union survey doesn't really reflect how most LAUSD teachers feel about the program.