Data Business Systems Now PaySchools
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,...
School Technology: Iowa districts receive grants for STEM growth
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...
School Nutrition: Students want healthy meals
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...
School Nutrition: Southold school districts eye federal "farm-to-school" grant
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...
School Nutrition: Nutrislice app provides parents nutritional data
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...School Districts: Back to school can mean back to bullying
September 8th, 2015 – This is a useful article for an important topic. Read more about the story here.School Nutrition: Food corporations likely to support nutrition guidelines
September 4th, 2015 – In advance of an impending reauthorization of nutritional regulations implemented in 2010, major food corporations are expected to support continued action to improve standards in their products. Initially resistant to the regulations,...School Nutrition: "Pizza burger" contains USDA-approved school cafeteria pizza recipe
September 3rd, 2015 – This would perhaps have been a bit timelier yesterday. The Des Moines-based casual restaurant Zombie Burger has been serving a type of sandwich with a pizza bun; the pizza, interestingly enough, is basically what you’d have had in...School Nutrition: Upgrades in student lunch include Mandarin chicken and Caprese salads
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...School Nutrition: Hydration and nutrition for school athletics
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...School Districts: Michigan school districts beginning before Labor Day
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...School Nutrition: Stricter lunch-payment standards in effect for some districts
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...School Nutrition: The ins and outs of meeting nutrition goals
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...School Technology: Pennsylvania School Districts Bridge Digital Divide
August 10th, 2015 – Pennsylvania’s South Middleton School District will enact an initiative this year to provide laptop computers to each of their high school students, starting with the 689 students and 55 faculty and staff members at Boiling Springs High...
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