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KSDE to test revised Healthy Kansas menus; board delays a related AV contract for more review
Summary
KSDE proposed revising Healthy Kansas menus to a six-week cycle and piloting recipes in three districts (two $15,000 stipends; one $12,000). Board members asked operational and sourcing questions; a separate consent-item contract for audiovisual services (Encore Global) was pulled and postponed to gather vendor/RFP information.
KSDE Director of Child Nutrition Kelly Cheney described a comprehensive revision of the "Healthier Kansas" school menus—moving from an eight-week cycle to a six-week cycle, incorporating harvest-of-the-month local-food recipes, and standardizing recipes, production records and purchasing guides. Cheney said KSDE planned pilot recipe testing in three sites (USD 336 Holton; USD 260…
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