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Oakland, Calif., voters to decide on bond issue for kitchen upgrades

Oct. 09, 2012

If approved, measure would allocate up to $475 million to improve foodservice

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Study: Students consume 400 billion calories from junk food sold in schools

Oct. 09, 2012

Retired military officers say kids too overweight to join armed forced

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Confessions of Rick Hughes

Oct. 04, 2012

Rick Hughes, director of food and nutrition services at Colorado Springs School District 11, loves garlic, admires the White House’s Sam Kass and wishes he could tell a joke.

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Calif. gov. vetos charter school lunch bill

Oct. 04, 2012

Bill would have would have required charters to provide low-income students free or reduced-price meals.

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Florida schools consider cameras to evaluate meal regs

Oct. 03, 2012

Cameras would caputre what goes in trash.

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You’ll likely hear the words “good food” several times in a conversation with Rick Hughes, director of food and nutrition services for 30,000-student Colorado Springs School District 11. Good food has become a mantra for what the distric

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