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I have spent time in school food reform at the Orfalea Foundation and have a Masters degree in Public Health from Oregon State University.

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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.

I would love to see some of the energy and activism around school lunch reform turn to broader topics of helping support parents to make better food choices at home.

Now that the series is concluded, I've linked all eight of our posts to a tab at the top of the page called, «New to School Food Reform?»

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

When it comes to school food reform, I try to stay grounded but optimistic (not easy) and am always open to hearing from people who've been at this a lot longer than I have.

More pragmatically, though, one of my core interests as a writer and advocate is school food reform, and I personally believe GMO has no place in that conversation at this juncture.

Find out the update at this post: School Food Reform: Can't We All Get Along?

D - SHAC approved the recommendation to form a school food reform committee, we have our first break - out session at the next meeting (Jan).

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

Vowing to reform the way food is handled in public school cafeterias and at plants that manufacture the food, Duncan announced plans to require all principals to keep their kitchen workers certified and their workspace clean.

As I wrote here last week, and as I've been telling you for the last few months, many of the important school food reforms of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act are currently at risk of being rolled back.

Since starting TLT in 2010, I've made it a tradition to post just before Thanksgiving on the topic that's at the heart of my interest in school food reform: childhood hunger.

to reform school lunch procedures would permit school districts to ban sale of such foods at any time and would encourage the sale of fruits, fruit juices, milk and other nutritious foods in vending machines.

But at the same time, no one wants to shell out $ 9 on a movie ticket to see Will Ferrell deal with the real complexities of school food reform.

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.

But of course I recognize that many people who don't share my political views might still support the current school food reform efforts, and I agree that I didn't acknowledge that at all in this post.

At any rate, after Ed's glass - half - empty post, which has been sort of echoing in my mind these past few days, and after a rather exhausting day yesterday of ranting about, and protesting for, school food reform, I feel thoroughly sick of the whole topic.

Ten years after I first dipped my toe into the roiling waters of school food reform, I continue to hear parents complain about unhealthy food and food practices at school, even as headlines scream about the childhood obesity epidemic.

But through my research and writing on the topic, and through my active participation in local school food reform efforts here in Houston, I've come to believe no proposed «solution» to the crisis will get us anywhere at all — unless kids themselves become invested in change.

We already know that school food reform is at the very top of the House Freedom Caucus's legislative hit list.

Forum: Lunch Reforms Needed as Kids» Health Worsens What children are taught in class about nutritious foods and what appears in school cafeterias often are at odds, according to educators and health.

Realistically, however, the «New» Renewal Schools Program can not address the housing, food insecurity, and discrimination (which impact education) that students at Renewal Schools face, indicating that the city must also address larger institutional issues when truly reforming education policy.