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District to review school-meal offerings, seeks federal flexibility and local sourcing
Summary
Board members and staff said they will ask federal representatives for changes to National School Lunch Program restrictions, review local vendor Whitsons' offerings and explore greater local purchasing and dye removal in school meals.
Ellington school officials said at the March board meeting they will press for regulatory flexibility in the National School Lunch Program to expand menu options and increase purchases of local food, and they praised recent local cafeteria menu improvements.
At an operations-committee update, a staff member identified in the transcript as Scott described plans to convene an operations committee to review Whitsons' food-service offerings and local practices that have shown promise. Scott said Whitsons has introduced positive changes but that the offerings are not yet at the scale the district wants.
Scott said…
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