School Meals

Districts Look To Debt Collectors, Stricter Policies, For Unpaid Lunches

Posted 05.15.2012

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Americans are likely hearing from debt collectors more in recent years than in the past, but a practice that may become even more common: debt collect...

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Will New Laws Kill Off A Beloved School Tradition?

Posted 05.04.2012

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Is the tradition of school bake sales nearing an end? At a time when school communities are forced to increase fundraising efforts amid tighter...

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Breakfast In The Classroom Changing Student Performance

| Melissa Bailey | Posted 04.17.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent. In the first month of a new experiment inside a Dixwell school, the number of kids eating...

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Schools Can Opt Out Of 'Pink Slime'

HuffingtonPost.com | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 03.15.2012

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"Pink slime" might soon have a leaner presence in public schools than many might have initially anticipated. The U.S. Department of Agriculture an...

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Feds Buying 7 Million Pounds Of 'Pink Slime' For School Lunches

Posted 03.08.2012

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Pink slime -- that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade -- may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Bu...

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Dinner At School: More Public Schools Dish Up 3 Meals A Day

AP | By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 02.18.2012

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where...

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Student's Homemade Turkey Sandwich Taken For Nuggets Was Teacher's Mistake

AP | By EMERY DALESIO | Posted 02.17.2012

RALEIGH, N.C. -- It was a tale of government meddling that outraged radio talk show hosts and a pair of Congress members: A 4-year-old was forced to d...

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Preschooler's Homemade Turkey Sandwich Replaced With Nuggets

Posted 04.16.2012

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A preschool student at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina ended up eating three chicken nuggets for lunch two weeks ago -- because a state ...

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Dinner Is Now On The Menu In Nearly 200 California Schools

| Sue Frey | Posted 04.10.2012

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This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. You've heard about free school lunches and breakfasts, but how about school suppers...

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Junk Foods Widely Available At Elementary Schools, Study Shows

AP | By LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 02.06.2012

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CHICAGO -- Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests. ...

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Getting Kids To Eat Vegetables At School: Are Pictures The Answer?

Posted 04.02.2012

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Getting young children to eat their servings of fruits and veggies, particularly in school, has been a long and hard struggle for parents, schools and...

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How The Food Industry Controls School Meals

Posted 02.04.2012

In a biting piece in The New York Times Sunday, investigative reporter Lucy Komisar offers an in-depth look at how the food industry -- and its comple...

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Line Grows Long For Free Meals At U.S. Schools

The New York Times | Sam Dillon | Posted 01.30.2012

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Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have los...

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School Breakfast Economics Add Up

Ed News Colorado | Rebecca Jones | Posted 01.10.2012

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Members of the Adams City High School Student Council earned $200 to help defray Homecoming expenses last fall, and they did it during school hours wi...

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WATCH: Why Schools Are Serving Lunch At 9:30 A.M.

Posted 12.28.2011

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Who hasn't had their share of cold pizza for breakfast? But for high school students across Florida, their 9:30 a.m. meal is no makeshift breakfast fr...

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Mysterious Blogger Who Exposed Bad School Lunches Revealed

Posted 12.05.2011

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It all started one day at the beginning of last year when she forgot to pack her lunch. Mrs. Q -- a pseudonym that this elementary school teacher u...

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Texas 'Calorie Camera' Will Track How Much Students Eat

AP | By PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 07.11.2011

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SAN ANTONIO -- Smile, schoolchildren. You're on calorie camera. Health officials trying to reduce obesity and improve eating habits at five San Anton...

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Should Students Be Separated By Gender For Lunch?

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Kevin Murphy Kevin Murphy Kansas City, Mo. -- Middle school lunch periods can be a free-for-all of teasing, rough-housing and flirting among boys...

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WATCH: 3rd Biggest Problem In Classrooms Is Student Hunger, Says Study

Posted 05.25.2011

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According to a nationwide survey conducted by Share Our Strengths, the third largest challenge that elementary school teachers face is student hunger....

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Food Fight: Documentary Screening Spurs School Nutrition Debate

Jacqueline Edelberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last night, my little public elementary school, Nettelhorst, hosted a public screening of the powerful new documentary Lunch Line. But the real drama began after the credits rolled.

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Weekends Without Hunger

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Very soon, children across the country will begin their long holiday break from school. But for too many of them, being out of school will mean not getting enough to eat.

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La. Law Targets Parents Who Owe Money For School Lunches

FoxNews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a good, old-fashioned food fight. Parents in Louisiana who can afford to pay for their children's school lunch -- and whose kids go three strai...

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Faced With High Student Hunger, DC Schools Start Serving Dinner

Posted 05.25.2011

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In one of the poorest regions in the country, Washington DC public schools are struggling to cope with high spikes in poverty in recent years. Accord...

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Looking forward to the weekend? Some children are not.

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Imagine an elementary school on a Friday afternoon: children racing to the bus, excited, making plans for Saturday play. While most relish their two-...

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