by Andy Eckles | Aug 31, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 31st, 2015 – The upgrades in student meals at districts is a topic we’ve covered to one degree or another, but it’s always good to see some detail in a story about what students today are served versus what students from ten or fifteen or...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 24, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 24th, 2015 – Perhaps one of the most prominent reasons to move toward healthier food and beverage choices in schools has to do with heavy physical activity at the start of the year, when summer temperatures are still the norm. With some energy drinks...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 20, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 20th, 2015 – The practice of school districts to begin the academic year after Labor Day is not unilateral as it is, but we may see the year beginning before then for those districts that do practice this…especially in light of the recent long-range...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 17, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 17th, 2015 – Today’s story, about the adoption of stricter lunch payment standards owing to a rising food-service debt caused by delinquent or defaulted student account balances, gives us a brief look into what can happen when the process of making...
by Andy Eckles | Aug 13, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
August 13th, 2015 – In this brief essay by Kathy Kolasa, a registered dietitian nutritionist and PhD and assistant professor at the Brody School of Medicine, we learn some reasons why a school can make strides toward better nutrition and still fall short of...