Joseph Vaughn, head of foodservice for the Los Angeles Unified School District since 2016, is joining the Valley Services division of Elior North America as vice president of operations.
After growing by some 200,000 children annually between 2011 and 2015, the increase in national participation in the Afterschool Supper Program dropped to only about 48,000 in 2016, according to research by the Food Research & Action Center.
The after-school meals program at Kansas City Kansas Public Schools serves as many as 1,500 meals a day to kids participating in activities like sports practices and band rehearsals.
Food Management visited the New Mexico school district late last year and get a tour of the district’s central production facility and met with some Top Chefs.
Two new efforts, involving more flexibility in nutrition program director qualifications and the advent of resources to ease the school meal application process for families, were just announced at the SNA Legislative Action Conference.
Students are savoring the outdoor grill experience, ripping into barbecued ribs, burgers and hot dogs, served outdoors and resulting in shorter lines at lunchtime in California’s Sweetwater Union High School District.
