Some school food professionals have long argued that healthful school food is unlikely to be accepted without corresponding changes in a child’s home environment. Or, as one child nutrition manager ...

LA districts say feeding students is more difficult due to rising food costs, recent cuts to federal aid and a growing number ...

Six of the nation's largest school districts are ditching polystyrene lunch trays in favor of compostable plates. The hope is that they'll incentivize cities to build more composting facilities.

Middle School Activists Get Styrofoam Food Trays Banned in LAUSD Schools By Lindsay William-Ross. Published Aug 22, 2012 11:00 PM Styrofoam tray by design56 via Shutterstock () Only 7% of ...

Schools will separate food scraps from compostable trays and other paper products and the waste will be sent to a composting facility in Prince George’s County, she said. Thirty DCPS schools ...

Espiritu School in south Phoenix, serving breakfast and lunch to 600 kids, nearly doubled or tripled its orders for local food last winter, said Cesar Ruiz, a consultant for the Farm to School ...

FARGO - Every weekday in an elementary school kitchen here, a worker fills a plastic tray with the day's lunch offerings and seals, labels and places it in a freezer - all in the name of food safety.

And it’s not just in Utah. With schools back in session, many school districts will be putting food from local farms on kids’ lunch trays. Farm-to-school programs can manifest in many different ways, ...

Needham schools cut down on food waste with reusable metal trays 02:21. Schools in Needham, Massachusetts have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with ...

Espiritu School in south Phoenix, serving breakfast and lunch to 600 kids, nearly doubled or tripled its orders for local food last winter, said Cesar Ruiz, a consultant for the Farm to School ...