I met with the director of food
services in our school district in Manteno, IL.
«For Pattern for Progress, which has spent years working on shared services and consolidation of
services in school districts, in towns, in villages, the notion that some of the tax relief money will be used to incentivize further efforts in this area is terrific, because it is something that always needs a push,» says Drapkin.
For more Web information, contact the coordinator for pupil
services in your school district or county office of education.
At IELP, she researched and wrote publications including «Governance and Urban School Improvement: Lessons for New Jersey from Nine Cities;» «Shared
Services in School Districts: Policies, Practices and Recommendations;» and «Guide to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.»
Not exact matches
• Harkness Capital made an investment of an undisclosed amount
in Southwest Foodservice Excellence, a Scottsdale, Ariz. - based provider of outsourced food
services to K - 12 public
school districts.
Since becoming the food
service director for Ellensburg
School District three years ago Garmong has been working to make big changes to the food served
in his cafeterias.
When Peggy Bodnar became the Food & Nutrition
Services Supervisor at Boise
School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and welln
School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive
school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and welln
school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness...
With 61
schools in the
district unequally equipped for lunch
service, heat and serve seemed like the only option.
The Boulder Valley
School District in Colorado, where I am director of food
services, is building a central kitchen, which will eventually cook upwards of 20,000 meals per day for our students, faculty and staff.
When Peggy Bodnar became the Food & Nutrition
Services Supervisor at Boise
School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed... Rea
School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive
school lunch program that was already profoundly committed... Rea
school lunch program that was already profoundly committed... Read more
The Lunch Box is an online resource that is dedicated to supporting
school districts and food
service teams
in transitioning their food programs from relying...
Professional Development: State Board of Education Rule 160 -5-6-.01 (2011) requires
school districts to make
in -
services available annually for
school food
service personnel.
And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food
Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for
school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier
school food mandates, all
in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the food.
Statute 120B.22 (2005) encourages each
district to provide ongoing
in -
service for
district school personnel to help students identify violence
in the family and community, so students may learn to resolve conflict
in effective, nonviolent ways.
Education Code 51264 (2003) calls for the California Department of Education to prepare and distribute guidelines for incorporating
in -
service training
in gang violence and drug and alcohol abuse prevention for teachers, counselors, athletic directors,
school board members, and other education personnel into staff development plans for each
school district.
Though Wilma works
in a public
school district rather than a private catering
service, I think you'll see that she and Justin share many of the same challenges.
Some time ago, an anonymous source provided me with two documents created by Chartwells K - 12, the food
service management company that currently operates
in 600
districts, serving 2 million
school meals a day.
Back
in December I wrote an op - ed for the Houston Chronicle urging my
school district to consider moving from the use of a food
service management company (Aramark) to operating its own
school food program.
KRS 158.852 (2005) requires each
school district to appoint a food
service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food
service program
in the
district.
Revised Statute 167.273 (1990) makes available additional state aid to local
school districts for a program of parent education established
in one or more high
school that
service pregnant teens and teen parents enrolled as pupils
in the
district.
Other: The Education
Service Center Child Nutrition Program (ESC / CNP) Specialist
in the Department of Agriculture reviewed all local wellness policies adopted by the
school districts in their region and completed a Wellness Policy Checklist to verify all local wellness policies meet the minimum federal requirements.
Additional accountability requirements: Revised Statute 158.856 (2005) requires each
school food
service director to annually assess
school nutrition
in the
district and to issue a written report to local
school board members, council members, and parents.
These may sound like extreme measures for an afternoon errand, but there is only one office supply store
in our town and it
services the entire
school district; over the years I have learned to contingency plan and pack.
Back
in the spring, the PAC (which consists of public
school parents selected by
school board trustees from each
district) was invited to a three - hour brainstorming session hosted by HISD / Aramark Food
Services.
Back
in February we ran across HCPS's Student Nutrition
Service Facebook page and fell
in love with their photos; we reached out, and Heather was kind enough to agree to sit down and answer our questions about how
school breakfast is served
in her
district.
Last
school year, the
district ditched its food
service provider
in favor of OrganicLife, which touts its organic, locally grown menu.
Orlando has 25 years experience
in school food service having been the Director for San Francisco Unified and Los Angeles Unified School Districts as well as working for Houston Independent School Dis
school food
service having been the Director for San Francisco Unified and Los Angeles Unified
School Districts as well as working for Houston Independent School Dis
School Districts as well as working for Houston Independent
School Dis
School District.
Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Education Law 917 requires
school districts, boards of cooperative educational
services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter
schools to provide and maintain on - site
in each instructional
school facility automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment.
The
school district will engage a committee composed of students, parents, teachers, (including teachers of physical education), administrators, food
service professionals, health professionals, and other interested community members
in developing, implementing, monitoring and reviewing
district - wide nutrition and physical activity goals.
The
School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Group has over 1200 members working in school districts, federal and state agencies, business and industry, and colleges and univers
School Nutrition
Services Dietetic Practice Group has over 1200 members working
in school districts, federal and state agencies, business and industry, and colleges and univers
school districts, federal and state agencies, business and industry, and colleges and universities.
• increase public funding for after -
school programs • serve suppers instead of (or
in addition to) snacks • recruit more
school districts to provide after -
school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food
Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated
school closures; and • improve meal quality
«Our supper meal program is a branch of our
school nutrition program
in which we try to recruit existing after -
school programs such as football teams, cheerleading programs, running programs, band and other programs,» explains Josh Mathiasmeier, director of nutritional
services for the
district.
What happened
in 2008 was that the USDA required that contracts between
school districts and food
service companies contain specific language indicating that all rebates and discounts would be credited to the
schools.
The employees of this and every other
school district in the country are paid from the Food & Nutrition
Service Enterprise fund
in each
district which derives its funding from the operation of the program.
Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition
Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar
In School Breakfasts: A
School District» s Perspective.»
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?
But, according to Ed's story,» it's widely assumed
in food
service circles that the big players — Chartwells, Sodexo, Aramark — are not declaring all of the rebates to which
school districts are entitled, hence the shroud of secrecy.»
Foremost among Cook for America's ® goals is to increase the level of self - respect among
school food
service workers who, all too often, feel as if they are the least important staff members
in a
school district's hierarchy.
Los Angeles Unified
School District Food
Services Division (LAUSD) has rolled out a hot supper
service in over 100
schools with more
in the works, including Belvedere Elementary.
Throughout the year, this food is distributed to each of the 21
schools in the
district and made available to students for lunch, breakfast, and summer food
service programs.
This
school year marks my eighth as the Food Service Director of Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) and my seventeenth working in school food r
school year marks my eighth as the Food
Service Director of Boulder Valley
School District (BVSD) and my seventeenth working in school food r
School District (BVSD) and my seventeenth working
in school food r
school food reform.
You would be hard - pressed to find a busier woman than Michelle Gifford, the Assistant Director of Nutrition
Services in the Riverside Local
School District in Painesville, Ohio.
With 61
schools in the
district unequally equipped for lunch
service, heat and serve seemed like the only option.
When Peggy Bodnar became the Food & Nutrition
Services Supervisor at Boise
School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness of their stu
School District in 2007, she was inheriting a progressive
school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness of their stu
school lunch program that was already profoundly committed to improving the health and wellness of their students.
Kathy Alexander, Food
Service Director of the Addison Northeast Food
Service Cooperative (ANFSC), has seven salad bars
in her
school district — one
in every cafeteria.
The Boulder Valley
School District in Colorado, where I am director of food
services, is building a central kitchen, which will eventually cook upwards of 20,000 meals per day for our students, faculty and staff.
In the 2011 — 12 school year, school food service in the district removed chocolate milk in grades K - 5 and offered skim milk instea
In the 2011 — 12
school year,
school food
service in the district removed chocolate milk in grades K - 5 and offered skim milk instea
in the
district removed chocolate milk
in grades K - 5 and offered skim milk instea
in grades K - 5 and offered skim milk instead.
Walla Walla, June 2013 Food
services staff from
school districts in SE Washington came together on a rare rainy day
in Walla Walla to visit Blue Mountain Seed to learn about chickpea production and processing, tour Welcome Table Farm to see vegetable production and visit the farm animals.
Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my
district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition
Services Parent Advisory Committee, a
district as large as ours (300
schools) faces unique challenges
in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.
But now you have more research findings to help you make the case with naysayers — and more resources to help you overcome the obstacles to expanding
school breakfast
service in your
schools and
districts.