By the numbers: a data bank on education trends for district leaders.THIS MONTH: School Lunch & Nutrition nutrition, study of the materials that nourish an organism and of the manner in which the separate components are used for maintenance, repair, growth, and reproduction. Nutrition is achieved in various ways by different forms of life. Twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. ago, American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of teens were drinking twice as many glasses of milk as they were soft drinks. Today, teens are consuming 2 servings of soft drinks for every serving of milk, which means they are ingesting 10 to 15 teaspoons of sugar per day. Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest, www.cspinet.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. The National School Lunch Program operates in 99,000 public and non-profit private schools. It provides nutritionally nu·tri·tion n. 1. The process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues. 2. balanced, low-cost or free lunches to more than 25 million children each school day. Practically all public schools (99%) offer nutrition education somewhere within the curriculum, and many integrate it within the total curriculum (70%). Nutrition education is concentrated within the health curriculum (84%), science classes (72%), and school health program (68%). Source: National Center for Education Statistics The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), as part of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States; conducts studies
Reimbursement
Most of the support the
USDA provides to schools
in the National School Lunch
program comes in the form
of cash reimbursement
for each meal served.
The current (July 1, 2002
through June 30, 2003)
cash reimbursement rates are:
Free lunch $2.14
Reduced-price lunch $1.74
Paid lunches $0.20
Source: USDA, www.usda.gov
Children Served
The National School Lunch Act
was established in 1946.
1946 7.1 million children
1970 22 million
1980 27 million
1990 24 million
2002 28 million
Source: USDA
Exercise
Question: Do you some form
of sports or exercise on a regular basis?
Age 13-15 84% No
Age 16-17 76% No
Source: The Gallop Organization, www.gallup.com
Note: Table made from pie chart.
200 districts have contracts that
give soft drink companies
exclusive rights
to sell their products in schools
Source: National Soft Drink Associations, www.nsda.org
Nutrition Education Covered Covered thoroughly
Relationship between diet and health 97 45
Finding and choosing healthy foods 97 40
Food guide pyramid 94 53
Reading food labels 90 32
Developing a personal nutrition plan 74 22
Body image 72 18
Keeping a food diary 61 22
Source: NCES, nces.ed.gov
A la Carte Offerings
Elementary Middle High
100% fruit juice 58% 63% 77%
Fruits or vegetables 68% 74% 90%
Low-fat salty snacks 30% 43% 58%
Low-fat cookies 36% 41% 48%
Soft of sports drinks 19% 40% 57%
Chocolate candy 2% 9% 24%
Cookies 49% 67% 80%
Salty snacks 26% 40% 58%
Note: Table made from bar graph.
Source: U.S. General Accounting Office,
School Lunch Program, www.gao.gov
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