Healthy Food Needed in Schools, Opinion Piece Says
In a Sacramento Bee opinion piece, Mikki Cichocki -- youth services coordinator for the San Bernardino City Unified School District and secretary-treasurer of the California Teachers Association -- argues that the availability of unhealthy food in schools "undermines parents' efforts to raise healthy kids, makes it harder for teachers to do their jobs well and contributes to an obesity epidemic that threatens the health of more than 23.5 million children and teens." She writes that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposed nutrition standards for schools "won't solve all the problems we face as parents and teachers, but [are] a critical step."
- "Viewpoints: Schools Need To Help Kids Eat Healthy" (Cichocki, Sacramento Bee, 4/6).