Sentences with phrase «school food dollars»

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«The Clash has raised tens of thousands of dollars for high school culinary arts programs and we are thrilled that the CRA will be bringing this exciting event back to the Western Food Expo for the 6th consecutive year, it truly is a highlight of the Show,» said Tom Loughran, Event Director.

He either doesn't understand the history and impact of U.S. food / ag policy on our school food, or his producers have nixed any mention of that because, let's face it, there are advertising dollars from Big Ag at least partially at stake.

Rosenbaum also hides the ball from readers when he compares the cost of funding healthier school food (an additional $ 1.22 billion over pre-HHFKA reimbursements, according to the USDA) to the skyrocketing costs of obesity ($ 200 billion dollars per year).

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

For multiple years, the suit alleges, Chartwells was paid many millions of dollars more for meals than it should have been, even while the company often delivered food late, failed to provide the full number of meals at some schools, and repeatedly served poor quality or spoiled food.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jose Oliva, 773.612.2559 Rodger Cooley, 773.354.2091, [email protected] CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO ADOPT GOOD FOOD PURCHASING POLICY The fourth school district in the country to adopt such a policy, the Good Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSSCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO ADOPT GOOD FOOD PURCHASING POLICY The fourth school district in the country to adopt such a policy, the Good Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSB-FOOD PURCHASING POLICY The fourth school district in the country to adopt such a policy, the Good Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSB-FOOD PURCHASING POLICY The fourth school district in the country to adopt such a policy, the Good Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSschool district in the country to adopt such a policy, the Good Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSB-Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSB-Food Purchasing Program will shift nearly $ 80 million annually in public procurement dollars toward food that is sustainable, -LSB-food that is sustainable, -LSB-food that is sustainable, -LSB-...]

Such regional goals for school food, hospitals, military bases, and other publicly funded food programs in each area would create more than enough aggregate dollars to make a notable difference in the food chain.

«We are excited to see Chicago Public Schools continue to be a leader by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness, quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar... [Continue reading]

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And as a parent whose children attend public school, I'm also angered that McDonald's is trying to go through schools to access children, providing much - needed fundraising dollars by pushing its unhealthy food on school families.

Another school food story: Chartwells, a major food service management company, has entered into a multi-million dollar settlement over a whistle blower's allegation that it systematically overcharged the D.C. school district — and this isn't the first time Chartwells has been accused of wrongdoing.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama's campaign for healthier school lunches has stalled in Congress after anti-hunger groups and more than 100 Democrats protested the use of food stamp dollars to pay for it.

But while fast food customers can vote with their dollars, our nation's school children, particularly those whose lower economic status forces them to rely on federal school meals, lack any voice in the matter.

But why is it that those so vehemently opposed to using federal dollars to improve school food never seem to object to using federal dollars to subsidize in all manner of ways the corporations manufacturing the junk food we currently feed our children?

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board mschool food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board mSchool Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

We should be funding school food as if it's a priority, not as if it need to be in competition with education dollars.

I kind of think that school lunch should be run as a not for profit, so that there are no profit dollars built into the cost of the food.

And for extra credit, bring in a large sample size of American elementary school students and serve them all of the meals, and measure the amount of food waste generated by each meal both in terms of weight and dollars.

One prominent food writer even suggested that bands of rich kids — kids with «parents making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year» — were mooching cheap food in schools here in the nation's capitol.

USA Today quotes Nancy Rice, president of the School Nutrition Association, as saying that schools are going to have to «stretch limited food - service dollars.

Now, of course, the food stamp program may lose significant funding if Congress continues to look to SNAP dollars to fund the stalled child nutrition bill (the CNA), which covers school food, as well as WIC and other federal food programs.

Maybe «Wilma» and others like her, who are the real heroes in the fight for better school food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelmingschool food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming ofood, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelmingSchool Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming oFood Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming odds.

I agree it is Wholefoods disciples pushing for excessively expensive school foods be served to all students (much of which they only toss in the garbage) to be paid for with increasing tax dollars from middle and lower class taxpayers.

Right now, the federal reimbursements for school meals are so woefully inadequate that food service directors have less than a dollar to spend on creating a healthy lunch.

Similarly, it seems silly to talk about rising obesity rates and increasing portion sizes without taking into account crop subsidies that not make it possible to buy 64 ounces (500 calories) of a soft drink for a mere two dollars, but also explain why school lunches across the country are trays full of overly refined ad highly - processed foods.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

We are told over and over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school districts amounts to less than a dollar.

(As explained in my School Lunch FAQ's, schools do in fact get $ 2.68 for each child served a free lunch, but the majority of that money is spent on operating costs, leaving only a dollar or so for the food.)

Diapers, food, clothing, child care, schooling, doctors, fun activities and everything else that one child requires amounts to tens of thousands of dollars.

«In our seven years at D.C. Public Schools, we have significantly increased the quality of food service while saving the District millions of dollars,» he said.

«While Gov. Walker spends millions of taxpayer dollars making it harder for working families to put food on the table, Wisconsin communities continue to struggle with crumbling roads, school funding cuts and economic uncertainty,» Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling tweeted on Tuesday.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

«Four years ago, Congress made a promise to school parents that their tax dollars would no longer be wasted on junk food in the lunchroom.

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson violated the city's ethics rules when she solicited a donation from a major food service contractor shortly after a whistleblower lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system, according to a ruling from the D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

Businesses that handle everything from finances to food services for alternative schools don't answer to the public, though they benefit from tax dollars.

Local districts would continue to provide transportation and food, including free or reduced lunches, to lab school students, while also redirecting state and local per - pupil dollars to the school's university leadership.

This Sutton office is active in the community, contributing to the food bank and a local elementary school as well as raising thousands of dollars each year to provide food and gifts for low - income families registered with the Surrey Christmas Bureau.