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Entries Tagged as 'school food'

Testifying for Healthy Schools

December 1st, 2010 · No Comments · kids, school food

Given before the D.C. Council yesterday, as it considers removing funds for better school food in the District as part of a plan proposed by outgoing Mayor Adrian Fenty to close a $188 million budget gap. My name is Andrea Northup and I coordinate the D.C. Farm to School Network, a program of the Capital […]

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Taking Food Out of Hungry Kids’ Mouths

November 28th, 2010 · No Comments · kids, school food

Charles Dickens could not have written a more sinisterly cruel plot. Having given D.C. kids a huge break by putting better food on school cafeteria trays, outgoing Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council are now poised to snatch it away in order to balance the city’s budget. Fenty has targeted nearly $4.7 million in funds designated […]

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Rocky Mountain Lunch Rescue: The Complete Series

November 27th, 2010 · No Comments · kids, school food

Our fabulous web designer, Keri Marion, has just finished adding a new feature to the front of the blog: Rocky Mountain Lunch Rescue, a quick portal to our recent series of articles detailing the efforts of  parents, community leaders and “renegade lunch lady” Ann Cooper to ditch the junk food schools were serving in Boulder and […]

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