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EdSec Betsy DeVos surprised many folks this week when she delivered a speech at the National Association of Public Charter Schools conference in which she warned as well as praised charter school advocates about their work — and didn't make all that much of accountability.

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An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

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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 recent years, the self - advocates have joined state committees in Springfield and spoken to local high school students about how to advocate for themselves.

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.

The findings of the research summarized in The Wellness Impact echo what child nutrition advocates have been preaching about school breakfast (and comprehensive school wellness approaches) for years.

This understanding can help you to advocate for better lunches at your child's school, or simply understand the changes you may be hearing about from your child.

All that said, I think it's important for advocates to be aware of the constraints of school lunch and to keep in mind that some of our ideas about lunch may reflect our own preferences rather than the actual nutrition or nutrition education school lunch offers.

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.

As a fellow parent, advocate, or other community member concerned about the well - being of school children in the nation's capital, we hope you join us in this shared cause.

And I would suggest calling your school district and calling and calling your school district and being fierce about being an advocate for your child.

As for Diaz - Tello, who has graduated from law school since the birth of her child, she's now working in her own legal practice and with groups like the National Advocates for Pregnant Women to educate moms about what they're going into when they enter the delivery room.

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.

We shared our experience and stories about raising our son, Morgan, and the various challenges and opportunities we had to empower him as a self - advocate through his tween years of school, campouts, overnight field trips and sleepovers.

But there are many more fathers who are just as strong of AP advocates in their everyday lives by choosing to not be shy about talking about Attachment Parenting, to their friends and family, coworkers, and other fathers at the park, grocery store, kid's ball game, church or school.

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.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.

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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Getting salad bar equipment into local schools directly affects your local community and their children, which makes parents and local businesses some of the most passionate advocates for your cause — they just need to know about it!

The initiative, which concluded its work in 2014, contributed to the evidence base by looking at the effect of an innovative delivery model, Breakfast in the Classroom; produced the Breakfast Effect video series to answer common questions about school breakfast; and gathered and shared critical resources for schools and advocates.

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.

At a 2012 SNA meeting, a Schwan executive and other industry advocates pushed for the group's leadership to be more aggressive in asking for changes in the school lunch program, according to a person who witnessed the exchange but requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about it.

About this new Russian role, Major Patrick Walsh, associate professor in the International and Operational Law Department at the US Army's Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Virginia, says:

But it is designed to demonstrate that Perkins has support in the district even though Smikle is expected to be well - organized and well - funded (especially if the charter school advocates and Smikle's former boss, Mayor Bloomberg, have something to say about it).

The more I hear charter school advocates advocate for charter schools — the more concerned I become about the other 90 %.

Central New York school leaders are preparing for a trip to Albany this weekend to speak out against about Cuomo's educational reforms in their final push to advocate for change.

The governor's offensive began with a Sunday statement from Budget Director Robert Mujica about a proposal to combat educational inequality not with more funding — as school advocates and Nixon have called for — but by granting the state power to review and veto plans by large districts to distribute it among schools.

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.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) visited Corona's PS 19 last week and collected about 100 signatures from parents and students within an hour imploring Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to fire 4,100 teachers from city schools.

The new laws «covers a big loophole in student school bus transportation that we were greatly concerned about,» said Jon Terry, founder of the Allergy Advocates Association, which is based near Rochester, in a statement.

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Yesterday, he met with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and other community leaders who advocate for veterans for a round table discussion at Fowler High school about how to improve veterans» employment prospects.

They also renewed their displeasure about a Buffalo School Board member who was one of Trump's top local campaign advocates.

A charter school advocate and major donor to Gov. Cuomo made racist remarks on Facebook about Senate Democratic Minority Leader, according to a report Thursday.

Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

Discussions of the Education Bill in the House of Lords became heated last night as prominent children's rights advocates slammed the Christian Institute for spreading «misinformation» and «wicked insinuations» about amendments relating to inspecting well - being in schools insinuating that proposed changes «would force schools to teach five year - olds about sex».

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Humanists UK is a founding member of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, and humanists have always advocated in the strongest terms for the importance of good quality, inclusive education in schools about religious and humanist beliefs.