K-12 Schools

Design

Great Spaces: Union Collegiate Academy, Union Public Schools, Tulsa, Okla.

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

Operations

Breakfast cereal tied to lower BMI for kids

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.

Camp puts emphasis on creating fun, healthy meals.

For most non-commercial operations, staffing remained stagnant during the past two years. College and those operations with more than $1 million in annual purchases were the most likely to have increased their staff in the past two years.

City council simply encouraged the move, but district made it official.

Company denied to mane number of employees who lost their jobs.

Online letter asked parents to pay "sugar tax" to web-based payment system.

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