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High school feeds students with healthy greenhouse food

Students at one Kentucky high school are happy about the two greenhouses on campus, but are more excited about where the foods end up.

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New Jersey Governor rejects bill giving students say in lunch menus

Governor Chris Christie vetoed legislation that would require schools to take students’ cultural food preferences into account, saying it would “burden hundreds of school districts.”

The Kentucky Wesleyan Student Government Association teamed up with Sodexo to raise money that would purchase food for the Daviess County Schools backpack program.

Officials say Hawkins County Schools’ child nutrition manager has been suspended three days without pay and given a permanent letter of reprimand after students were served pork, some of which dated back to 2009.

Republican lawmakers seek changes to the program after the USDA reports nearly $2.7 billion in improper payments during the 2012-2013 school year.

Amid complaints about Capitol Hill foodservice workers, constituents are complaining cafeteria prices in the visitor center are nearly double that of other Capitol cafeterias.

A team of staff, cooks and parents at Trinity Lutheran School did the math and now serves a variety of options at lunch—decreasing the chance for food to be thrown away.

While the state has no formal policy on banning foods from school cafeterias, there are safety measures in place to prevent exposure to the top eight foods that cause allergic reactions.

Students in a Chicago suburb found they could save nearly 500 pounds of cafeteria food waste from landfills by sorting and taking it to a composting site.

Deedra Hoffart, Tony Almeida and Timothy Gee are the recipients of three prestigious awards to be presented at AHF’s conference in Salt Lake City.

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