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SNA is calling on Congress to provide reasonable flexibility to help schools plan healthy meals that students will eat. Some critics of providing relief to struggling school meal programs have released misleading information about the challenges schools have faced under the new regulations.

SNA welcomes calls by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide schools with the flexibility they need to prepare healthy meals that will increase student consumption of nutritious choices.

As First Lady Michelle Obama invites a select group to the White House to discuss school nutrition issues, SNA is urging the Administration to hear the concerns of school cafeteria professionals challenged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) overly prescriptive school meal regulations.

With the House Appropriations Committee set to discuss school food standards tomorrow, school nutrition professionals are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Congress to provide meal programs with flexibility to plan healthy school meals that students will eat.

SNA urged Congress and the Administration to take immediate steps to provide school nutrition professionals the flexibility they need to plan healthy, appealing meals while maintaining fiscally solvent programs.

As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the Fiscal Year 2015 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, SNA called on members to support language providing a temporary, one-year waiver for school meal programs operating at a net loss for 6 months or more under the new nutrition standards.

SNA applauded the Senate Agriculture Committee for holding a hearing to discuss the importance of child nutrition programs.

SNA sent a letter to First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting a meeting to discuss challenges under the new nutrition standards for school meals.

National survey shows healthy trends taking root in school cafeterias while limited funding and cost of food are flagged as pressing issues for school nutrition programs.

SNA has submitted comments to the US Department of Agriculture in response to the department’s proposed rule outlining new nutrition standards for school meals. 

SNA President Nancy Rice joined President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in celebrating the passage of S. 3307, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

DianePratt Heavner703 576 7526dpratt heavner@schoolnutrition.orgSNA Partners with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Childhood Obesity Initiative  SCHOOL NUTRITION PROFESSIONALS COMMIT TO NEW NUTRITION PROGRAMS AND GOALS   NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (February 9, 2010) – The ������ϲʹ������� (SNA), representing 55,000 school