K-12 Schools

Operations

Jersey district gives peanut butter the boot

Committee felt risk was to high to allow the kid-favorite spread.

Operations

W. Va. free school lunch, breakfast bill passes

After heated debate, bill that would provide free meals to all students.

Expect to reduce cafeteria waste by 50%.

Kitchen staff processed food from school garden.

Cites cost of healthy food as reason.

When more than 1,000 students were to be added to Union High School, in the Union Public School District in Tulsa, Okla., Lisa Griffin, R.D., director of child nutrition, knew she needed to upgrade the cafeteria to be able to handle the influx. The school

Kids who ate more cereal got more vitamin D, B-3, B-12, riboflavin, calcium, iron, zinc and potassium than kids who ate less cereal or none.

Bon Appetit's CEO thinks with a little more money, school lunches could be as good as Google's.

Cites participation decline in light of new school meal pattern.

Number of free or reduced-price lunches rose 3.8 percent over last year.

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