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Pennsylvania school board reaches deal with foodservice staff

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Leaders of the Rockford, Illinois, district plan to apply for a new USDA program called Community Eligibility Provision, which would allow the district to feed all of its students for free based on the reimbursement it would receive on qualifying students.

New School students say food prices at the University Center’s cafeteria are too high. For some, it means going hungry; others say it may explain why some students resort to stealing.

After hearing that a student’s lunch was thrown away because his lunch account didn’t contain enough money to cover the meal, school board members in a Pittsburgh-area district are looking to amend their policy for addressing students who have insufficient meal funds.

The vendors are trying to collect a debt totaling $10.7 million from South Carolina State University.

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