School Nutrition News: New Bill Would Require Schools to Monitor Social Media
A newly introduced federal bill seeks to heighten security at American schools by encouraging districts to adopt social media monitoring programs. The controversial practice, which uses algorithms to crawl and index public profiles of popular sites like Twitter and Facebook, has grown in popularity over the last several years, as administrators look to new and emergent technologies to heighten school safety — and potentially head off the next mass shooting. Now the Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's...
SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS: Flint Fights Lead Poisoning With Farmers Markets and Cooking Classes
After a public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, triggered by high levels of lead in the drinking water, a number of programs are working to encourage good nutrition for children in order to prevent recurring effects of the neurotoxin on growing bodies. John Yang reports. See Transcript of interview at PBS...
Wisconsin School Breaks Up Lunchtime Cliques With Assigned School Lunch Seating
There's a scene in the movie Mean Girls where new student Cady Heron gets a lesson from her friend, Janice Ian, about the social hierarchy of the high school cafeteria. "Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial," Janice says. She then maps out the cliques, including preps, jocks and, of course, the "plastics. The scene is an exaggeration of a common experience: the stress of finding your place in a school cafeteria. But Wisconsin resident Smitha Chintamaneni can't...
U.S. Prek-12 Schools Explore Adopting Facial Recognition Software
The facial recognition market is a fast-growing industry expected to generate a value of almost $9B annually by 2022. Part of that market includes the education sector. Currently, governments are the biggest consumers of this technology because of its ability to deter crime. The “eye in the sky” watching over everyone is able to detect facial features, allow expedient access or deny it, and identify persons of interest. Large cities like Chicago and Detroit have already opted...
SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS: From Hot Meals to PB&Js: The Realities Of School Lunch Debt
What happens when a student incurs debt from meals provided at school? One Pennsylvania school district tried to collect on that debt by sending parents a letter threatening that their children could be taken from them. The New York Times reported on the case: “Your child has been sent to school every day without money and without a breakfast and/or lunch,” read the letter, which was signed by Joseph Muth, director of federal programs for the Wyoming Valley West...
SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS: Nutritionists, dieticians in St. Louis to work on making school lunches healthier, more delicious
Nutritionists and dietitians from around the country are working to made kids’ school lunches healthier and more delicious. The School Nutrition Association hosted its 73rd annual National Conference this week at the America’s Center Convention Complex in downtown St. Louis. The two-day convention allowed school nutrition professionals from around the country to sample food and recipes, test equipment and software, and share the best practices for meeting federal nutrition requirements. RELATED: Collections Assistant Low Balance Notifications, Negative...
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