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 | Apr 11, 2016 | Front Page, News, Press Release
DATA BUSINESS SYSTEMS CHANGES ITS NAME TO PAYSCHOOLS Aligns Its Integrated Payment Solutions More Closely to Over 8,000 Public and Private Schools in 43 States Serving over 6 Million Students Data Business Systems, the flagship education division of i3 Verticals,...
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...