A push for healthier school meals
Charlie Baltimore eyed the pizza in the cafeteria of the High School of the Future with simmering contempt. "In a year," the ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — Charlie Baltimore eyed the pizza in the cafeteria of the High School of the Future with contempt.
"In a year," the school administrator vowed, "we're going to eliminate pizza."
Unlike most city schools, the technologically specialized West Philadelphia school has a full kitchen where many meals are prepared practically from scratch. Like just four other schools, it gets $5,000 a year in extra funding from the district to buy fresh produce. There's even a vegetable garden.
Future is emblematic both of what healthy school eating can look like and of Philadelphia's place in the forefront of cities seeking to improve school meals.
But Future is a relative anomaly. And, according to Baltimore and others, much work has to be done to get other schools in the city — as well as across America — up to that same standard.
Denigrating most district meal offerings as "slop," Baltimore said: "The more we phase out garbage, the better our students will be."
State schools chief Randy Dorn arrested on suspicion of drunken driving
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn was arrested early Sunday in Orting under suspicion of driving under the influence, his office confirmed Tuesday.
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Randy Dorn, state schools superintendent
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn was arrested early Sunday in Orting under suspicion of driving under the influence, his office confirmed Tuesday.
The traffic stop occurred at about 1:30 a.m. at roughly the 300 block of Washington Avenue North, said Orting Police Chief Bill Drake. That's the same block as Orting High School.
Dorn said in a statement Tuesday that he and his family were attending a community event Saturday night