“Healthy Schools” legislation written by D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh comes up for its first committee vote today after months of deliberations and with one very conspicuous missing element: no regulation of sugar in school meals. Removing the astonishing amount of sugar served to D.C. school children every day is probably the quickest and cheapest way to make school […]
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By Andrea Northup The Healthy Schools Act is On the Move! The public hearing on the Healthy Schools Act on March 26th was well attended, and D.C. City Councilmembers heard an impressive contingent voice their support for the bill. Read some of the wonderful testimony and find more information about the act on Mary Cheh’s […]
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Testifying before the D.C. Council on “Healthy Schools” legislation yesterday, I found an unexpected ally in Councilmember and former Mayor Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), who went out of his way to criticize the food in D.C. schools I was there to tell the author of the legislation, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), that she had […]
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