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That program, also known as SNA, grows more costly every year, costing local taxpayers $ 7.8 million last year — more than 10 percent of their total property tax bill.

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.

In addition to serving as SNA vice-president and president, Shirley was also director of nutrition for Memphis City Schools, served as president of the Tennessee chapter of the SNA, served as Deputy Undersecretary of USDA from 1993 - 1997, and was promoted to Undersecretary in 1997.

I encourage you to read Woldow's piece, as well as the SNA position paper.

Creating opportunities for SNA members to further their education — and their careers — helps individual members, their respective schools and school districts, as well as SNA and the school nutrition field as a whole.

Not exact matches

As a result, SNA has improved its return on invested capital (ROIC) from 7 % in 2009 to a 13 % in 2017.

Bears will point to SNA's rising finance and contract receivables as reason to believe the stock is in bubble territory and set for a crash.

SNA also competes with private label tools such as those sold at Home Depot (HD) and Lowe's (LOW).

Woldow speculated that, based on the progressive meal program Ronnei previously oversaw as school food director in St. Paul, Minnesota, her election might signal a softening of SNA's current stance against science - based school nutrition standards.

I believe her election represents a real turn at SNA toward its historic role as a primary supporter of healthier, better, and more sustainable food for our school children.

The big disappointment to me was that SNA didn't put its full weight behind those requests, a move which would have united the entire «good food community,» as you call it, and which likely would have had the full support of our still - highly - popular First Lady as well.

And having SNA and SNF resources available is a huge help — not just in terms of offsetting the costs associated with attending college, but with his professional education and development as well.

To apply for the Baxter Equipment for Education Grant, you must be an active SNA director - level member who has been a member of SNA for at least one year, as of January 1, 2015, and be the person responsible for directing the school nutrition program of the school district.

Citing Webinar Wednesdays and Talk Tuesdays as some of his favorite SNA resources, Will urged fellow members to seek out and leverage the tools to maximize their personal success, as well as the success of their child nutrition programs.

Will first became an SNA member when he completed his dietetic internship through the Sarasota County School District, a program that requires membership as part of the curriculum.

«Mrs. Joanne Kinsey suggested that, as a member of SNA, I should apply for an SNF scholarship to go back to school.

SNA members are school nutrition professionals, and as TLT and Ms. Woldow have pointed out, every one of their school meal programs faces different challenges.

While the SNA currently seeks to weaken somewhat the nutrition standards relating to whole grains and sodium, the organization continues to support the rest of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA)'s 2012 overhaul of school meals, such as calorie caps, more fruits and vegetables, etc..

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.

The SNA has maintained that this change increases plate waste, while other studies, such as this one from the Harvard School of Public Health, found no such increase.

Established in 1964, the Annual Fund provides SNA members with financial support for education and professional development, as well as to support research and offer scholarships.

Moreover, as a feature article in yesterday's New York Times Sunday magazine made clear, SNA and its lobbyists on Capitol Hill are already deeply entrenched in their strategy to roll back healthier school food requirements.

It was his involvement in the Institute, as well as urging from colleagues like Kevin Fowler and Penny McConnell, which prompted Holben to join SNA.

On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 2 p.m. ET, you'll hear from SNA's Director of Media Relations, Diane Pratt - Heavner, as well as the President of CJ Public Relations, Elizabeth Cowles Johnston, as they impart strategies to help you manage media requests to positively promote your program.

It's also quite encouraging to me, as a school food advocate, to learn that SNA's troubling positions are not necessarily shared by the organization's members at large.

Because regardless of what happens with SNA's desired one - year waiver language in the pending 2015 appropriations bill, the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is looming large and the SNA clearly views the CNR as its best chance to permanently roll back key HHFKA nutrition standards relating to sodium, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and a la carte offerings.

SNA will present a broad body of research that exists around breakfast consumption, and two specific research studies examining breakfast - in - the - classroom, specifically; we'll examine benefits beyond increased participation such as academic performance, decreased tardiness, improved behavior and attendance, a and a reduction in visits to the nurse's office.

As always, according to Kidd, the opportunity to spend time with fellow SNA members proved rewarding.

Your donation — whether it's five or fifty or five hundred dollars — means giving as many SNA members the opportunity to pursue higher education as possible.

As a current member of SNA, I am curious to why two non SNA members would create a petition like this and encourage SNA members to sign it?

Don't forget to bookmark the SNA Resources page as well!

This year, as part of the National School Breakfast Week campaign, SNA offered students the opportunity... Continue reading →

From the program: The Richard B. Russell Leadership Series was established in 2010 by the Georgia SNA in memory of Senator Richard B Russell, a passionate leader in school nutrition programs from the very beginning when Congress authorized the school lunch program, now known as the Richard B. Russell School Lunch act of 1946.

As part of the School Nutrition Foundation's commitment to education, research, and scholarship, we are thrilled to announce our newest engagement initiative for SNA members: the 2016 Ambassadors Program.

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The School Nutrition Association (SNA), in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service Child Nutrition Programs will host a FREE webinar on nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools outside of a reimbursable meal, known as the «Smart Snacks in Schools» standards.

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.

That's also my SNA connection — as a new director I just didn't have a lot of resources or clues how to do anything, so my answer to that was involvement.

As you know by now, the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, is seeking to use the CNR to permanently weaken the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) nutritional standards for school meals (specifically, those relating to whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and lower sodium) on the grounds that kids are spurning the healthier meals en masse.

Back in 2010 Congress adopted greatly improved school food standards, which received bipartisan support as well as the endorsement of the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of 55,000 school food professionals.

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Ben active SNA member, who has been a SNA member for at least one year as of February 1, 2014, and a history of employment in school foodservice.

This news was trumpeted yesterday by the SNA as the top story in its «Smart Brief» newsletter.

Accordingly, as part of a collaboration between various school food advocates and school food service directors, an open letter directed to the SNA's Board of Directors is now being circulated with the hopes of getting as many signatures as possible.

Only SNA members from the employee or manager category are eligible for this scholarship and they must be nominated by their district director; the district director must be attending ANC as well.

In a press release entitled, «SNA Urges a No Vote on House CNR Substitute,» the organization decried the idea as both «reckless» and «dangerous.»

In my opinion, not much at the present time, given the incentives that drive Big Food and some food service directors into each other's arms, as well as the food industry's influence over the SNA and Congress.

As I mentioned in a tweet last Friday, details have recently emerged regarding yet more internal strife within the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the organization which represents 55,000 school food professionals.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition... [Continue reading]

As Woldow points out, SNA members «are hardworking individuals who care very much about kids and their health.»