Child Nutrition Reauthorization

Last week I attended a rollicking event on Chicago’s West Side. Healthy Schools Campaign’s Cooking Up Change event—a benefit and competition between students to create healthy and tasty school meals—was attended by over 600 enthusiastic high schoolers, community leaders, local government leaders and...

I just participated in a wonderful school nutrition conference in Athens, GA that ran from September 28-30. It was Georgia’s annual School Nutrition Directors’ Conference, and I found it to be very well organized and packed with important information.

Dr. Janey Thornton, Deputy Under Secretary for USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

By Audrey Rowe, FNS Deputy Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs I’ve had a chance to see a great deal of impressive schools during my tour of the country to speak about Child Nutrition Reauthorization. My recent visit to Waterford Village Elementary was no exception. Witnessing their...

By Darlene Barnes, Mountain Plain Regional Administrator, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 12, 2010

Audrey Rowe, Deputy Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs School Tours, Las Vegas, Nevada April 26 and 28, 2010 I had the wonderful opportunity to visit two schools in Las Vegas, Nevada to discuss the upcoming reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Programs. As Deputy Administrator for the...

By Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, USDA Exploring creative avenues to nourish a nation is a great to start any week. And that’s exactly what USDA Deputy Secretary Merrigan and I had the opportunity to do this Monday (May 10, 2010) during the first...

By Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Today I joined U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) and retired admirals and generals from the non-profit group, Mission: Readiness, to release the results of a study on obesity among young adults. The report delivered some disturbing news - more than 9 million...

Cross-posted from the www.letsmove.gov blogBy Julie Paradis, USDA Food and Nutrition Service Administrator This week I got a chance to travel to South Carolina and to talk to child nutrition staff from South Carolina as well as surrounding States like Tennessee, Mississippi and North Carolina about...