Sentences with phrase «school food reform»

I'd been involved in school food reform in my own district for only three months.

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.

Parents and educators who have advocated for school food reform in their communities discuss their journey.

My team and I remain focused on school food reform because of the need to continue supporting long - term solutions.

As a mom and school food reform advocate, I was thrilled to see this — people demanding the right to know what's in their food.

Should we not even waste our time on high schools and instead focus school food reform efforts on elementary schools?

So keep that in mind as you take your first baby steps into school food reform.

And now we are nine team members strong and it's no longer a small group of schools leading school food reform in our country.

There has to be a more sophisticated approach that embraces school food reform from many different angles, using all of the available resources.

There's a lot of important news and media out there regarding school food reform.

-LSB-...] We had a lot of great debate about school food reform last week, didn't we?

And I'm clearly not alone in my views about the grim economics of school food reform.

Parents and educators who have advocated for school food reform in their communities discuss their journey.

I've been involved directly in school food reform for about one year — certainly not long enough to be a war - weary veteran, by any means.

When advocates who share a common interest in fighting child obesity are at each other's throats over whether chocolate milk is a tasty way for kids to get important nutrition, or the Drink of Satan, the whole school food reform movement suffers, and that hurts kids.

-LSB-...] the current battle over school food reform, learning that one in ten children suffer from fatty liver disease, and a planned post tomorrow about Chinese - processed chicken and food safety, things have been -LSB-...]

But as we discussed a while back (see «Why I Just Rained on Someone's School Food Reform Parade,» the posts linked to it and the many comments), the last thing I want to see is an ever --LSB-...]

i don't see why there couldn't be an erin brockovich style school food reform movie with a slapstick food fight.

A new paradigm in the fight against childhood obesity and diet - related illnesses, Cook for America ® promotes school food reform with an emphasis on holistic, systemic change.

And with a problem as huge and multi-faceted as school food reform, there's obviously room for lots of voices and strategies.

-LSB-...] overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

check it out if you want more of my thoughts on Why I Don't Think School Food Reform = Nanny State

-LSB-...] in her latest angry screed against Obama - backed school food reform (and she's written others), conservative pundit Michelle Malkin applauded District 214 for voting itself out of «the -LSB-...]

What public school districts need is a road map to meaningful school food reform like the one Dana Woldow is putting together.

SBISDs DSHAC school food reform sub-committee meets for the first time Thursday.

-LSB-...] to get her well - informed take on school food reform issues (most recently after reading about the Chicago school food «miracle» reported in the Chicago Tribune).

And here are some insightful blogs, films, and websites to inspire school food reform:

school food reform initiatives, including «Chefs Move to Schools,» a campaign to encourage chefs to adopt their local schools for cooking demonstrations and -LSB-...]

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the role of School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food blogger.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (the federal school food reform law) hadn't yet... [Continue reading]

I'll be sharing some thoughts on effective school food reform advocacy, and... [Continue reading]

I'll be sharing some thoughts on effective school food reform advocacy, and I'll be joined by Mike Schade of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, among other speakers.

Jodie is the mother of two boys and a parent advocate for school food reform at her school district in Longmont, Colorado.

Within the important new category of «School Food Reform Resources for Parents,» there are two sites in particular that I want to be sure you know about.

Distinguishing the Cook for America ® approach from that of countless other school food reform projects is its emphasis on holistic, systemic change through the creation of a school foodservice work force that is both capable of preparing healthy scratch - cooked meals from whole, fresh foods, and empowered and motivated to do so.

Ok, first off I'd like to say I'm relatively new to this entire topic of food reform and particularly school food reform — but since one of the things everyone seems to be trying to do is to attract / educate / interest more and more folks, maybe my newbie perspective could be important.

But my approach on this blog (and in my own school food reform efforts here in Houston) is to be more pragmatic.

Adamick's passion and dedication to the cause of school food reform really come through in these opening chapters, which will have every concerned parent nodding their heads and saying «Amen, sister!»

Nice to know there is another houston school food reform blogger out there!

If Republicans, many of whom are allied with SNA in this effort, win control of the Senate this fall, we may well see decades of work on school food reform go up in smoke.

As a member of Houston ISD's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (and now also HISD's Student Health Advisory Council), and as someone who is very much «in the weeds» on this issue, meaningful school food reform seems nearly impossible to me on my darkest days.