K-12 Schools

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New York school district offers after-school meals

Elaine Crysler and her team at the Skaneateles Central School District lunch program have made some changes that they hope will both give students healthier meal options and boost the program's participation.

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Getting the message straight

We have an electronic e-newsletter that we send out to our teachers to tell them about what’s going on in our program and update them on the new regulations.

Charlottesville encourages students to place the food they don’t want on these “sharing tables” for other students, but not every item finds a home.

Farmington school officials say they have addressed student complaints about school lunches and are making some changes to cafeteria procedures.

In the face of declining participation in the school lunch program, Superintendent Michael Delahanty is considering having the high school withdraw from the federal Food and Nutrition Service Program.

Most operations offer on- premise catering. For those that do offer both on- and off-premise catering, on- premise catering makes up 80% of the catering business.

The LAUSD is responding to criticism from employees after cafeteria workers were told to only speak English.

The Learning Center at Linlee decided to stop participating in the federal school lunch program.

Many Farmington High School students are fed up with their school lunch program and hundreds of them are planning to bring their own lunch to school next week in protest.

As the Atlantic reports, the Lincoln Public School System (LPS) in Lincoln, Nebraska “has gone above and beyond the legal requirements, dishing out a daily vegetable smorgasbord.

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