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Saturday, January 16, 2010

School Bake Sales Are Back On, but Only for Haiti - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

School Bake Sales Are Back On, but Only for Haiti - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com:


"The city has taken a number of steps to help Haiti, gathering donations from the public, offering to send rescue workers and city engineers and giving city employees the option to have contributions deducted from their paychecks.

And it is allowing bake sales in schools.

In the fall, the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, severely restricted bake sales in schools as part of the city’s effort to limit students’ consumption of junk food. Students raising money for trips and clubs could sell only from a list of specifically approved snacks, like baked chips and granola bars. Parents and students complained that the new regulations stifled their ability to raise money for extracurricular activities."