by Andy Eckles | Jun 6, 2016 | Events, Front Page, News
NASHVILLE, TN (April 19, 2016) – i3 Verticals, LLC, a rapidly growing technology and payment processing company, today announced the completion of two acquisitions: Bill & Pay, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Esber Cash Register, headquartered in...
by Andy Eckles | May 25, 2016 | Events, Front Page, News
May 25th, 2016. This is an article by The Atlantic’s CityLab, about the federal Summer Food Service Program and why it reaches a far smaller proportion of impoverished students and children than intended. Chief among the reasons is a shift in what poverty...
by Andy Eckles | Nov 2, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
November 2nd, 2015 – We’ve covered STEM a couple of times over the last couple of years. In this story, we learn about 12 Iowa school districts that have received a combined $300,000 to contribute toward growth of their respective STEM programs. Read more...
by Andy Eckles | Oct 28, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
October 28th, 2015 – This article is written by a high school senior at A.I. Prince Technical School; here, she writes about the need for healthy, widely-available school meals. There is a connection here with our posting from yesterday regarding “food...
by Andy Eckles | Oct 27, 2015 | Events, Featured Slider, Front Page, News
October 27th, 2015 – This is something that would be enormously beneficial to the school districts that are placed in what we call “food deserts”: those regions or areas that are either too heavily urbanized and sprawling, or too geologically...
by Andy Eckles | Sep 22, 2015 | Events, Front Page, News
September 22nd, 2015 – The Nutrislice app provides parents with nutritional facts and descriptions covering the menu options at their student’s schools. This seems like a very good way to stay informed about the nutritional values of what’s being...