Entries Tagged as 'District of Columbia'
“My bill will see to it that students are eating fresh healthy food in school cafeterias throughout the District”–Mary Cheh D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) has introduced landmark “Healthy Schools” legislation that integrates nutrition standards, locally produced foods, school gardening, broader access to subsidized meals and increased physical exercise to address obesity and other children’s health issues in […]
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Washington City Paper’s “Young and Hungry” column this week spills some ink in defense of our recent series, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen.” “Y&H isn’t quite sure how he missed this, but former Washington Post reporter Ed Bruske recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Adams Morgan. where his […]
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By some sort of crazy coincidence, a reporter for the Washington Times newspaper was investigating Chartwells, the contracted food provider for D.C. Public Schools, at the same time that I was spending a week in a school kitchen discovering just how bad our school food is. Last week I published a six-part series under the […]
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