Sentences with phrase «hearing on child nutrition»

Both the Senate Agriculture Committee and the House Education & the Workforce Committee have conducted hearings on the child nutrition reauthorization (CNR), including one featuring Indiana school board member and National School Boards Association (NSBA) Director John Payne.

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So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

«They were god - awful,» he said, during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on federal child nutrition programs Tuesday.

House Republicans continued to apply their scrutiny on child nutrition programs in a hearing Wednesday but gave no hint of a potential timeline for getting a bill out to change the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act as the law is set to expire Sept. 30...

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Come and hear from SNA's State Agency Representative, the State Agency Committee members and USDA officials on what to expect with the re-authorization of this landmark child nutrition law.

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

The music our children hear on the radio may feel good, like a candy bar feels good, but it has no nutrition.

At a hearing last week on legislation to reauthorize child - nutrition programs, officials from the Agriculture Department, the agency that administers the school - lunch program, said that such overcounts could cost the government as much as $ 200 million each year.

A desire to increase school meal program flexibility while continuing to provide students with nutritious meals was the key take - away from the House education committee's hearing on the upcoming reauthorization of federal child nutrition programs.