School lunch news: California poll, Kansas high school video, and praise for OUSD
Friday, October 19th, 2012 at 3:37 pm in No Comments
Photo by Jane Tyska/Staff
A recent statewide poll released by The California Endowment, a health foundation that promotes nutritious school lunches, found that 82 percent of students and 91 percent of parents surveyed support the latest changes in school lunch nutrition standards, overall. The changes include a greater variety of produce, more whole grains, portion size guidelines and calorie limits.
After hearing summarized arguments for and against calorie restriction, about 64 percent of students and 56 percent parents said they thought the calorie limits should continue, the California Endowment reported.
Students who made headlines with this music video parody, “We Are Hungry,” seem to feel differently. They
Oakland schools, students step up to host candidate forums
Friday, October 19th, 2012 at 2:15 pm in 1 Comment
photo courtesy of Preston Thomas, Life Academy
Students at Oakland’s Life Academy of Health and Bioscience interviewed District 5 city council and school board candidates Thursday night in a public forum they organized.
Principal Preston Thomas described the event as “totally authentic and student-led.”
“This was a great example of what it means to be a full service community school,” he wrote in the email he sent