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D.C. Schools Wait Nine Months for Rebate Accounting from Chartwells

July 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · kids, school food

D.C. Schools Chief Operating Officer Anthony Tata told The Washington Post yesterday that he has been waiting some nine months for Chartwells, the school system’s hired food service provider, to furnish an itemized accounting of the rebates it receives from food manufacturers in connection with its purchases for school meals. Tata made the disclosure to […]

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Corporate Rebates: The Million-Dollar Elephant in the Cafeteria

July 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · kids, school food, Tales

D.C. Public Schools in the last two years have taken in more than $1 million in corporate rebates–referred to by some as “kickbacks”–paid by giant food manufacturers as an inducement to place their brands on kids’ cafeteria trays at school. Documents obtained by The Slow Cook through the Freedom of Information Act show that Chartwells, the company […]