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New Jersey town receives funding to start food-recycling project

 May 18, 2015

By recycling food waste from the school system into compost, Maple Shade Township’s program aims to lower the volume of food sent to landfills.

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Child-nutrition programs under scrutiny

 May 18, 2015

Members of the House Education and Workforce Committee will meet to discuss waste, fraud and abuse in federal child nutrition programs, following reports from the Inspector General, USDA and GAO that the programs are not serving those most in need.

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Pennsylvania school board reaches deal with foodservice staff

May 18, 2015

The tentative deal allows district officials to meet their foodservice goals without having to outsource cafeteria operations.

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Georgia’s ‘Feed My School’ program growing

May 18, 2015

The Feed My School program serves as a learning tool, teaching food safety, pricing and packaging as well as helping grow the farm-to-school movement.

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University aims to help food insecure students

May 15, 2015

U.C. Berkeley’s six-year holistic nutrition plan includes a food pantry, emergency funds and loans, help creating a spending plan, tips on eating for $5 a day and a donation program for any student’s unused dining hall meal points.

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USDA to require safety labels for tenderized beef

By Bianca N. Herron on May 15, 2015

Foodservice facilities will now have more information about the products they are buying, as well as cooking instructions to safely prepare them.

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Facebook raises minimum pay for cafeteria workers to $15 per hour

May 15, 2015

Facebook raised wages for contract workers—such as cafeteria staff and janitors—to a minimum of $15 per hour, amid rising tension over the wage gap between the technology sector’s elite and lower-paid workers.

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Consultant: Schools could save money without Sodexo

May 15, 2015

A Connecticut board of education received an auditor’s report saying it could be cheaper to hire its own facilities management staff rather than continue a contract with Sodexo.

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Democrats blast cafeteria privatization moves

May 14, 2015

The renewed bid by the Republican-controlled Bristol, Connecticut Board of Education to privatize school cafeterias has become a hot political issue.

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Community organizations play a key role in Georgia schools districts’ summer meals

May 14, 2015

Some Georgia school districts plan to partner with community organizations to provide summer meals to students who rely on school lunch. Meals will be served via a “lunch bus” that stops at community centers, local churches and other locations.

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