The New Year often marks the opening of exciting new chapters, and this is certainly
the case with school food.
Not exact matches
A
school law attorney will provide a primer on the legal issues to consider in addressing
food allergies on campus; and will provide three
case studies serving as examples of how universities can provide accommodations for students
with special dietary requests.
Although the human body can make most of the types of fats it needs from other fats or raw materials, when it comes to omega - 3 fatty acids that isn't the
case with the
school claiming that we can derive what we need from
foods such as fish, vegetable oils, nuts, flax seeds, flaxseed oil, and leafy vegetables.
While Fed Up
With Lunch takes a stark and often critical look at the
school food — in her
case, served by a CPS caterer called Preferred Meal Systems — Wu offers generous props to lunchroom managers, cooks and others who must prepare thousands of hot meals for often - choosy customers each day.
JOLIET — After dozens of students and teachers were sickened by a contaminated
school lunch two years ago, the Will County state's attorney made headlines by charging two state education employees
with reckless conduct, apparently the first criminal charges against government employees in a
food - poisoning
case.
We love this interview
with Tom Tanner, director of
food services for Rochester
schools in New Hampshire; listen as Tanner makes the
case for breakfast - in - the - classroom during an appearance on New Hampshire Public Radio.
But if districts are able to combine their considerable purchasing power, as is the
case with the Urban
School Food Alliance (discussed in past TLT posts linked below), we may start to see more «real food» offerings like Back to the Roots cereal on kids» tr
Food Alliance (discussed in past TLT posts linked below), we may start to see more «real
food» offerings like Back to the Roots cereal on kids» tr
food» offerings like Back to the Roots cereal on kids» trays.
Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of
school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte»
food, or (in the
case of high
schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those
with no money in their pockets.
In 2010, Sodexo — which made a deal
with Magic
Food Provisions to form SodexoMagic — settled a $ 20 million case in New York after it allegedly overcharged more than 20 of the state's school districts for food serv
Food Provisions to form SodexoMagic — settled a $ 20 million
case in New York after it allegedly overcharged more than 20 of the state's
school districts for
food serv
food service.
Hopefully, you have already visited your child's elementary
school and let them know (preferably last spring) that your child has
food allergies and will be entering kindergarten — if that's the
case for you — or will be back for this
school year
with food allergies that need to be managed.
Mrs. Q did not set out to be an activist, but her book is a compelling
case study of what's wrong
with our
school food system and what all of us need to do to fix it.
Rather than passing herself off as some sort of miracle worker, or trying to sell me on a simple five - step plan she'd come up
with, she made it clear to me that improving
school food can not happen without lots of hard work and, most importantly, without funding; in her
case, San Francisco's board of education is willing to kick in significant money each year to cover the costs of the improved
school food.
I also share some big news: in the past, even a
school willing to pay for its own salad bar could not get the district to stock it
with food, but
with changes to the way our menus will be planned, starting next year this will no longer be the
case.
It's been exciting engaging
with schools to pull together
case studies on things like improving behavior in the canteen and providing healthy
food at an affordable price.»
His program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and
school food — namely, that
food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their
food and they respond
with equal respect; and that improving
school food can change kids» attitudes about
food outside the
school yard gates, as was the
case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast
food now that he's eating healthful
foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.
Nardo says that was the
case with KIPP in Newark, until they outsourced the management to Revolution
Foods (see sidebar, «Other Options»), a health - based
school foods company launched in California in 2006.
Still others act as
case workers or counselors (but actually spend the majority of their day in the learning environment
with students) to focus on the non-academic problems — like
food, health, or emotional issues — that too often trip up students (and sadly receive short shrift in many
schools today).
Schools have become a lifeline for poor families by providing the daily essentials — such as
food, clothing and even, in a small number of
cases, emergency loans — for families
with nowhere else to go for help.
Making The
Case For Full - time
School Nurses: We Need Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Champions Written by Michael Pistiner MD, MMSc As we move forward with implementing policies to care for students with life - threatening allergies, it has never been more clear — school nurses are indispen
School Nurses: We Need
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Champions Written by Michael Pistiner MD, MMSc As we move forward
with implementing policies to care for students
with life - threatening allergies, it has never been more clear —
school nurses are indispen
school nurses are indispensable.