To examine how school meal programs have encouraged good decisions among their students, the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project — a joint initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — commissioned a nationally representative sample of
school nutrition department directors.
Not exact matches
Lynn Harvey, chief
school nutrition services
director for the North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction, said she heard complaints from many public
school districts about the 100 - percent whole grain requirement because the reformulation has affected a regional favorite.
«We found that one out of six kids hadn't had breakfast before they got to
school — and it wasn't tied to socio - economic status,» said Mary Begallethe
director of food and
nutrition service for the Minnesota
Department of Children, Families & Learning.
Some
school districts, like SFUSD, allow their
nutrition departments to run a deficit and cover it with money from the general fund, but other districts don't, and their
nutrition directors have to find a way to make the
school breakfast and lunch programs pay for themselves.
«Our goal as a
department and a district is to make sure the last kid has the same choices as the first in the variety and the quality,» says Craig Schneider,
director of
nutrition for the Poudre
School District.
As a leader and proud
school foodservice
director, Long worked with the local technical college and
school nutrition state
department to develop a Culinary Assistant and Manager Certificate program that
school nutrition employees were able to take for free.
More than 100 stakeholders, including
school food service and
nutrition directors, teachers, current students, youth ambassadors, district and
school administrators, and representatives of the state
departments of education, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Parent Teacher Association, nonprofit organizations, and industry, attended a meeting October 16 - 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the... Read More
More than 100 stakeholders, including
school food service and
nutrition directors, teachers, current students, youth ambassadors, district and
school administrators, and representatives of the state
departments of education, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Parent Teacher Association, nonprofit organizations, and industry, attended a meeting October 16 - 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the...
Fixing
school food is a team sport, and there is no more important member of your team than the
director of the
nutrition services
department.
Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the
nutrition of the nation's
school lunch program, first as the founder and
director of the consumer group Public Voice, and in the last two years as
Department of Agriculture undersecretary of food,
nutrition and consumer services.
The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former
director of child
nutrition at the Agriculture
Department, «has resigned from the
School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.&
School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier
school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.&
school meal requirements to any
school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.&
school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»
«Initially it was a struggle for the district, but we made it a priority in our budgeting and have been successful,» said Marilyn Hughes,
director of
nutrition administration for the district's
School Nutrition Department.
We will also hear from the
school nutrition director at Ventura Unified School District (CA) and a representative from the Alabama Department of Education will discuss fresh produce handling practices and training strat
school nutrition director at Ventura Unified
School District (CA) and a representative from the Alabama Department of Education will discuss fresh produce handling practices and training strat
School District (CA) and a representative from the Alabama
Department of Education will discuss fresh produce handling practices and training strategies.
David Heber, MD, PhD Professor, UCLA
department of medicine, division of clinical
nutrition, David Geffen
School of Medicine, UCLA, and UCLA
School of Public Health;
director, UCLA Center for Human
Nutrition; author of What Color is Your Diet?
The Food and
Nutrition Service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), recently proposed rule FNS 2017 - 0039 which addresses some of the challenges small districts face in hiring
school nutrition director candidates.