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How Greenville County Public Schools creates a restaurant-quality menu

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 27, 2023

Director Joe Urban has come up with a menu development process that ensures dishes are both cost effective and exciting for students.

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Whitsons wants one-third of its menus to be plant-based by 2025

By Reyna Estrada on Mar. 27, 2023

The foodservice management company will develop new plant-based recipes and tweak some vegetarian dishes to be fully free of animal products.

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LAUSD reaches agreement with union workers

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 27, 2023

Cafeteria staff and other service employees at the Los Angeles school district are set to receive a 30% wage increase, fully paid healthcare benefits and more.

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USDA proposes new rule to expand CEP access

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 22, 2023

The proposed rule would lower the percentage of low-income students required for schools and districts to participate in the program, which enables serving free meals to all students.

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Minnesota says yes to universal free meals

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 21, 2023

Also in this week’s K-12 legislative update: Pennsylvania looks to continue its universal free breakfast program and a federal bill would require schools to serve soy milk.

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LAUSD foodservice staff announce strike

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 16, 2023

The workers, represented by SEIU Local 99, are calling for higher wages, more full-time work and increased staffing levels.

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Pennsylvania school breakfast participation gets a boost thanks to free breakfast program

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 16, 2023

Over 23 million breakfasts have been served to students through the program, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

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School meal debt spikes in New York after loss of universal free meals

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 14, 2023

A recent survey showed that 126 school districts in the state have accumulated a total of $1,414,122.86 in current unpaid school meal debt as of March 2023.

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New Mexico universal free meals bill heads to governor's desk

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 14, 2023

The state would join California, Maine and Colorado in offering universal free meals at school.

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More students are eating school lunch and breakfast

By Benita Gingerella on Mar. 13, 2023

A new report by the Food Research and Action Center shows that breakfast and lunch participation during the 2021–2022 school year was higher than that of pre-pandemic levels.

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