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District outlines nutrition goals, cites breakfast service and USDA standards
Summary
District staff presented nutrition goals noting secondary students scan for meals while elementary schools use a daily count sheet, flagged breakfast as the area with greatest opportunity for improvement and said USDA sugar and sodium reductions are applied as percent-of-calories standards.
District staff presented a nutrition goal update at the Nov. 20 meeting, describing differences in meal accounting between school levels and identifying breakfast as having the most opportunity for improvement. Minutes state: "Students scan for meals at secondary but not elementary. Elementary uses a daily count sheet." The presentation also notes that USDA-recommended sugar and sodium reductions are applied based on percentage of total calories and that surveys will be conducted at all schools, including charters.
The minutes do not identify the staff member who presented the update or include a timeline, budget, or measurable targets beyond a reference to longitudinal targets on the RSD website for other programs. The board recorded the presentation on the agenda but did not record a separate board action tied to the nutrition goals in the published minutes.
