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More Setbacks for SFUSD’s Future Dining Experience

Posted February 3, 2016 by Dana Woldow

In 2013, San Francisco Unified School District unveiled its plan to update school cafeterias and use technology to encourage more students to choose school meals. Hopes were high that after many years of lackluster performance, the number of kids eating Read More »

Craziest School Lunch Myth Yet

Posted November 30, 2015 by Dana Woldow

Myths about healthy school lunch rules reached a new level of crazy recently with the misleading claim that adding a dash of spice to garnish a school lunch is forbidden. That bogus assertion was made by a marketing specialist with Read More »

Is There a “Contraband Economy” in School Cafeterias?

Posted October 22, 2015 by Dana Woldow

Although you would never know it from the inaction in Congress, it’s time to renew child nutrition legislation, including the rules for food sold and served in schools. As recently as 2010’s Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, Congress still made Read More »

School Lunch Foes Favor Anecdotes Over Evidence

Posted October 19, 2015 by Dana Woldow

Media stories about school lunch usually appear in August, along with the Back to School ads, but this year those articles are still a regular occurrence, even as Halloween rapidly approaches. That’s probably because, although the federal legislation covering all Read More »

NY Times School Lunch Story Ignores Data

Posted September 30, 2015 by Dana Woldow

Don’t you hate it when the facts contradict a really catchy headline? I guess the New York Times does. Contrary to the screaming headline of a recent NYT article claiming that kids hate school lunch, the latest data from the Read More »

The Truth About School Lunch Programs

Posted September 28, 2015 by Dana Woldow

(Editor’s Note: On September 27, the NY Times published a misguided and inaccurate attack on the federal law designed to improve the health of student lunches (“Why Students Hate School Lunches“) Dana Woldow addressed some of these mistruths back on Read More »

SF Schools’ Meal Meltdown

Posted August 26, 2015 by Dana Woldow

It’s déjà vu all over again, as SF public schools have been left waiting – and waiting – for their cafeteria meal deliveries, beginning the first day of this new school year. That’s exactly what happened at the start of Read More »

Rand Paul Doesn’t Get School Lunch

Posted August 5, 2015 by Dana Woldow

Congressman Rand Paul apparently does not understand how the federal school lunch program works. What else could possibly explain Paul’s gaffe in his recent Waste Report, where he accuses LAUSD of deliberately shortening lunch periods to deny food “already paid Read More »