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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DISTRICT HIGHLIGHT:
IN THE NEWS:
‘A hungry child cannot learn’: Miami-Dade district gets students to help with new school meal recipes
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“MDCPS staff regularly try new recipes and retool their menus to try to make the meals more appetizing, with a focus on serving foods that appeal to the district’s ethnically diverse student body. When it comes to adding — or axing — proposed menu items, the district turns to diners with specific tastes and discerning palates: its students.” Principal Sylvia Coto-Gonzalez gave the taste-testers their marching orders. “First, how does it look,” Coto-Gonzalez said in Spanish. “Second, how does it feel in the mouth? And third, how do you like the flavor? Let’s go.”
*Credit: Full story originally featured on WLRN | Miami-South Florida; Photo Credit: Kate Payne, WLRN
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NORTH EAST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
DISTRICT HIGHLIGHT:
IN THE NEWS:
A San Antonio school district launches unique, free lunch delivery
story quote:
A decade ago, the district retrofitted an out-of-service school bus, turning it into a mobile lunch counter. It’s back, rolling to four locations and serving kids up to age 18 whether they’re NEISD students or not. Like the other San Antonio-area school districts that offer free summer meals reimbursed with federal funding, NEISD makes lunches available at schools. But the bus is unique. “We just see it as an investment,” said Sharon Glosson, the NEISD director of nutrition services. “It just doesn’t serve as large of a volume as school sites, but we feel like it serves a need, to make sure that we reach families who don’t have access to those sites.”
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*Credit: Full story originally featured on San Antonio Express-News; Photo Credit: Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News
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