Campaign for Quality Services | Remember the Lunch Ladies?

Remember The Lunch Ladies?

You remember the lunch ladies, don’t you?

Today, these women and men are called school food service workers, and with more children in poverty than ever before, they serve as the advocates for better and more nutritious school meals.

But in a few weeks, a piece of legislation called the Child Nutrition Act, which funds our school meals, is set to expire.

Watch this video and sign this letter to Congress on the right. &rarr

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Dear Members of Congress:

The Child Nutrition Act has been a key piece of legislation for over four decades, and the school meals program is more important than ever.

I urge you to help pass a new Child Nutrition Act that improves upon the program, so that it:

Gives school food service workers the right to sick days and training.
Increases the amount of fresh and local foods provided to schools.
Improves access and eligibility to the program.

Sincerely,
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Even though the Act was first passed in 1946, many of the same problems still remain today.

Many school food service workers still don’t have sick days, even as schools begin to prepare for the swine flu.
There aren’t enough fresh and local foods for school food service workers to prepare a nutritious school lunch with. Canned foods remain the norm.
Due to inadequate access and eligibility, many children aren’t ready to learn in the morning or afternoon…because they simply haven’t eaten.

With the Child Nutrition Act expiring so soon, we need everyone – parents, teachers, educators, and nutrition advocates – to get behind a new, improved Child Nutrition Act.