Read The Full Letter Here March 19, 2025 RE: SUPPORT – Full Funding for School Meals for All and Kitchen Infrastructure and Training in the 2025–26 California Budget Dear Senate President pro Tempore McGuire, Assembly Speaker Rivas, Budget Committee Chair Wiener, Budget Committee Chair Gabriel, Budget Subcommittee Chair Laird, and Budget Subcommittee Chair Alvarez, […]
Jennifer LeBarre, Interim Senior Executive Director, Operations, Supporting Student Nutrition Services & Transportation for the San Francisco Unified School District By the time they graduate, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) seniors will have spent over 13,000 hours in our schools learning, socializing and, thankfully, eating. Every day, SFUSD’s Student Nutrition Services team works […]
The program is crucial to the health of many kids and is vitally important to their families By U-T Readers Originally posted on the San Diego Union Tribune May 1, 2024 5:30 AM PT Re: “Much-needed free school meals program must be preserved by state government” (April 15) “As a parent of a Poway High School student, […]
Michael Bates leads the lunch line at Cherokee Point Elementary School in City Heights. (Earnie Grafton/San Diego Union-Tribune) Originally posted by The San Diego Union Tribune By Robert Fellmeth April 15, 2024 6:38 PM PT Robert Fellmeth is the executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute and Price Professor of Public Interest Law at the University of San […]
Read the full letter here March 13th, 2024 The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor, State of California 1021 O Street, Suite 9000 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: SUPPORT – Governor’s Proposal to Fully Fund School Meals for All in the 2024-25 Fiscal Year Budget Dear Governor Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore McGuire, Assembly Speaker Rivas, Budget […]
SB 348 Protects Children’s Health, Aligns CA With Pediatrician-Recommended Guidelines for Added Sugar and Salt in School Meals Sacramento – Governor Newsom has added his signature to SB 348 (Skinner), making California the first state in the nation to codify President Joe Biden’s new federal nutrition guidelines aimed at reducing added salt and sugar in school meals. Enshrining […]