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Minnesota students become Food Explorers

Feb. 20, 2014

For 45 minutes each week, students in Jessica Busch’s class at Red Pine Elementary in Eagan are no longer just first-graders.

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New Haven schools on track to eliminate $3.5 million deficit

Feb. 20, 2014

After starting the year with a $3.5 million budget deficit in food services, the New Haven Board of Education is on track to end the year with a balanced Food Service account, Chief Operating Officer Will Clark announced at the School Board meeting last week.

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Mass. schools racked up over $78K in unpaid lunch bills

Feb. 20, 2014

At Gloucester High School, lunch costs $3.50 a day. At O’Maley Innovation Middle School, it costs $3.40. And at the elementary level, it costs $2.90.

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Most Oregon students skip breakfast, study says

Feb. 20, 2014

More than half of Oregon eighth-graders skip breakfast at least one day a week and 29 percent of them skip it more often than they eat it, a new survey found.

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University of Vermont to host chef from Slovenia

Feb. 20, 2014

UVM will host a chef from Bresovica, Slovenia this year as part of the ninth annual Global Chefs event Feb. 20 and Feb. 21.

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Maine school chef adds game show for food education

Feb. 20, 2014

Start with an end-of-the-school-day assembly, mix in a game show and teachers dressed as fruits and vegetables, and you have a recipe for a food education.

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