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Revolution Foods feeds the ed-reform hype « Parents Across America

Revolution Foods feeds the ed-reform hype « Parents Across America

Revolution Foods feeds the ed-reform hype

What could be more admirable than an attempt to improve school meals? And making a profit by doing that can only be beneficial to everyone, right?

That’s what San Francisco Bay Area-based Revolution Foods has convinced a lot of people, anyway. The private-sector enterprise has won acclaim for supposedly bringing better, healthier, fresher school meals to school cafeterias.

Only trouble is, Revolution Foods claims that it can do that for the amount public schools receive from the government for school meals are untrue – which has caused some problems with its clients.

Revolution Foods is something like a parallel wing of the “education reform” movement — the same