Tag: School Lunches

  • SD Unified Hopes to Feed 600,000 With Summer Meal Program

    By Erik Anderson San Diego officials hope to feed more than 600,000 kids with their free summer lunch program this year. San Diego Unified is a partner in the Summer Fun Café program, which hands out free lunches to students who would otherwise not be able to afford them during the summer. Gary Petill, food…

  • ‘Still Room for Improvement on School Lunches’: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson Last year, school districts throughout the country and right here in San Diego revamped their school lunch menus to comply with updated nutrition standards. The new USDA guidelines call for less salt and fat and more fruit and vegetables. And students are now required to pick out a nutritionally complete meal as…

  • Schools Serving Up Free Lunches Over Winter Break

    By Kyla Calvert For the first time this year, San Diego Unified is serving free lunches at city recreation centers while schools are closed for winter break. The lunches started this week at recreation centers near schools where break has already started. Just over 61 percent of San Diego Unified students qualify for free or…

  • SD Unified Serving Up Healthy Lunches

    Gary Petill, director of Food and Nutritional Services at San Diego Unified School District, and Vanessa Zajfen, specialist with the Farm to School program at SDUSD, talk to KPBS about school lunches. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane, Monaliza Noor, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to the KPBS Midday Edition interview In accordance with…

  • School Brings the Family Dinner Table Into the Classroom

    By Megan Burks and Brian Myers One by one, students in Jennifer Garfinkel’s third grade class shuffled into seats around tables set with plates and cutlery. They’re the same classroom tables where students unpacked pencils and paper earlier in the day to work. At noon, the work surfaces become dining tables with a little disinfectant…