Quote Originally Posted by Trek420 View Post
Many schools here struggle with decreased funding, high class size, rising fuel, energy and food costs. Unfortunately some may choose to cut costs by reverting to lunches with cheaper ingredients, often that evil incarnate HFCS

Fortunately even some urban schools are bringing back farm/agricultural programs. This can teach so many subjects including nutrition, science, horticulture and the enviornment and potentially even cut rising school lunch costs at the same time

www.edibleschoolyard.org
We don't have lunch programs in most of our schools. We have parents who organize a weekly hot lunch program that is paid for my students. The MUST follow the guidelines set out by the govt. In low SES schools, there are daily lunch programs, but I believe these are paid for my the govt and are not part of the school district budget.

Oh, and the edible school yard is an awesome idea!!!