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November 29, 2005

School boards chew over school wellness mandates

The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 2004 requires every school system that participates in the federal school lunch program to have a wellness policy in place by the start of the 2006-2007 school year. The requirements passed down by Congress do not prescribe a specific plan each school must follow, reports the Kingsport, Tenn. Times-News. Instead, the requirements leave to school districts the authority to make decisions about what foods to serve and how much physical activity to incorporate.

Brenda Greene, director of School Health Programs for NSBA, is working with state school boards associations as they assist local school boards in developing policies to meet this requirement. The Kingsport Times-News article is the best one we have seen on these new demands on school districts.

Need some good resources? Check out USDA Team Nutrition. Also, Action for Healthy Kids has a policy development tool that was developed in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

How is your state doing on this? We would love to write about it.

Posted November 29, 2005 4:54 PM | Health & Wellness

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