Thankfully: LAUSD DONATING FOOD KIDS WON’T EAT
BY MELISSA PAMER STAFF WRITER |DAILY NEWS/DAILY BREEZE |HTTP://BIT.LY/UI0GJO
Vanessa Day boxes up leftover lunch items at Gulf Avenue Elementary School as part of a new LAUSD program. The leftover meals and other items are donated to a food-for-the-needy program at Wilmington's Sts. Peter and Paul Church. (Brad Graverson Staff Photographer)
11/25/2011 06:48:51 AM PST - Until this year, the leftovers from Los Angeles Unified student lunches - thousands of cartons of milk and many tons of food - were getting trashed each day because the school district was hampered by law from donating or sharing with hungry families.
Now that's changed, thanks to a policy shift backed by South Bay school board member Richard Vladovic. Dozens of charities are receiving excess food that now gets redistributed to those in need.
The district's new food donation program is slowly expanding. Last week, Wilmington's Gulf Avenue Elementary School began its