Sentences with phrase «school meal standards»

So this is the perfect time for ordinary parents to speak out in support of maintaining healthier school meal standards.

However, more than 90 percent of schools serve meals that do not even meet the minimum national school meal standards, which were established in 1995 and do not reflect current nutrition science.

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out... [Continue reading]

Nonetheless, the newer study led major media outlets like Fox News and the Washington Post to portray healthier school meals as «in trouble,» and it may well influence Congressional lawmakers during this fall's Child Nutrition Reauthorization, when they will consider weakening school meal standards regarding fruits and vegetables.

The change is due to new school meal standards unveiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last January, per the order of 2010's Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

One of the key arguments marshaled by opponents of the current school meal standards is that kids just don't like healthier the food, resulting in decreased participation and lost revenue.

HB 1545 would require more stringent milk, whole grains and sodium school meal standards than currently required under federal law.

Unlike French schoolchildren, whose four - course repast Ms. Murphy so admires, our children were not seeing a lot of baguettes and jasmine rice before school meal standards were overhauled.

«New school meal standards significantly increase fruit, vegetable consumption.»

A massive year - end spending bill released Tuesday doesn't allow schools to opt out of healthier school meal standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama, as House Republicans had sought.

The vast majority of Alabama voters, including those with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

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But she and I are in complete agreement that the answer to this problem is not taking a giant leap backwards from the recently improved school meal standards.

Eighty - one percent of parents in Pennsylvania support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

On the other side of the equation, numerous leading public health advocates and organizations are strongly opposed to weakening school meal standards.

First, as you know, lately this blog has been quite preoccupied with the brewing Congressional battle over school meal standards.

There does seem to be an over-reliance on potatoes (and, thanks to the successful lobbying of potato growers, the new federal school meal standards won't prevent that practice from continuing), and the -LSB-...]

Most importantly, both of these trends, according to FRAC's analysis, were well in the works many years before the new school meal standards were introduced in the 2012 - 13 school year.

I'm aware that the Trump administration may only just be getting started, and that Perdue's May 1st announcement could be the opening salvo in a larger effort to dismantle healthier school meal standards.

One of the most dismaying aspects of the recent passage of new federal school meal standards was the collective caving by Congress to pressure from various food manufacturers seeking to protect profits.

And when it comes to scratch - cooking, the gold standard for school meals in the minds of many parents, Justin thinks the new school meal standards may actually encourage more reliance on processed food.

It remains to be seen if SNA's efforts to weaken school meal standards are successful, something we may not be able to fully assess until the Child Nutrition Reauthorization is completed in 2015.

But given these same representatives» dogged quest to gut healthier school meal standards, this talking point struck me as more than a little disingenuous.

, a public / private partnership of health organizations helping Maine successfully implement — and exceed — the new federal school meal standards.

The Rudd study, when paired with similar findings from a previous Harvard School of Public Health study, make a very strong case that we must stay the course on the new healthier school meal standards.

It is now deeply entrenched in its strategy to roll back school meal standards, an effort that's likely to intensify in the coming year as the school food law comes up for reauthorization in Congress.

And of course Christie responded exactly as one would expect a Republican presidential candidate to respond: by railing against the First Lady for her vocal support of healthier school meal standards.

But the SNA — before it launched its misguided effort to roll back healthier school meal standards — was once aligned with many widely respected voices which would have strongly supported such a request, including the American Medical Association, the Children's Defense Fund and the retired, four - star military leaders behind Mission Readiness, to name only a few.

The Senate has also released its agriculture appropriations bill, which currently has no language affecting the school meal standards.

On a related note, to the extent that any of these photos were taken before this school year, they also don't reflect the huge gains made with the passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the first major overhaul to school meal standards in many years.

Last week, school food reformer Dana Woldow published an excellent take - d0wn of a widely circulated AP story that left most readers with the impression that the new healthier school meal standards are a big flop.

That's why I so strongly support the National School Lunch Program and will continue to work hard to defend the new, healthier school meal standards.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

Sid Miller can polish his conservative bona fides by granting «amnesty» to cupcakes, but wrongheaded policies relating to school meal standards and classroom junk food adversely affect the health of real children every day.