Word came yesterday that the D.C. Council had spared the Healthy Schools Act from the budget axe. While a number of social programs weren’t so lucky, D.C. Council Chairman and Mayor-elect Vincent Gray chose not to follow the suggestion of outgoing Mayor Adrian Fenty and use some $4.7 million intended for better school meals to […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has removed a serious hurdle confronting Michelle Obama’s campaign to place 6,000 salad bars in the nation’s schools after advocates expressed alarm over a government memo indicating that self-serve salad bars would not be permitted in elementary schools. Backers of the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools campaign said local […]
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On Thursday afternoon, the House approved the “Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act,” also known as the child nutrition reauthorization (CNR) bill. Having already cleared the Senate, the bill is ready for approval by President Obama, who has long supported it (along with Michelle Obama, who’s made kids’ health her policy focus). This broad piece of leglslation, which […]
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