Sample Policies
- The SF Board of Education policy prohibiting vendor products, brand names, and tobacco subsidiary products
- The SF Board of Education resolution removing junk food from SFUSD schools
- SFUSD Wellness Policy Guideline for Class Parties and Celebrations
Tools You Can Use
- Sample Mobilizing Web Site Here is an example of a quick website you can put up to mobilize people to support your cause. This was a real site used for a real (and ultimately successful, but not school food-related) campaign in 2007. It can help you visualize what your site could look like and what kinds of links are useful to include. For more on this, see “How to organize and mobilize to make change happen.”
- How to fund raise for your school without selling food Bake sales and candy fundraisers are so 20th century! Here are dozens of ideas for ways to make money for your school without contributing to the obesity epidemic.
- How the San Francisco Unified School District organizes food and fitness fairs for high schools
- See how San Francisco’s cafeteria worker salaries compare to other
school districts around California.
Non-Food Birthday Celebration Policies
Alternatives to Junk Food in the Classroom
- Non-food ideas for parties and celebrations
- The Busy Family’s Guide to Healthy School Snacks
- Healthy Halloween Treats
- Healthy Halloween Treats (Spanish)
- Healthy Halloween Treats (Chinese)
Good Advice
- Prevent Haunted Teeth How to minimize damage to your kids’ teeth on those days when sweets are everywhere
- Prevent Haunted Teeth (Spanish)
Useful USDA Links
- Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs (January 2012 update)
- Regulations for the National School Lunch Program (from the Code of Federal Regulations)
- Regulations for the School Breakfast Program (from the Code of Federal Regulations)
- Government reimbursement rates for school meals, for the current year and for previous years
- Income eligibility guidelines, for the current year and previous years; this shows the maximum family income to qualify for free or reduced price meals
- The history of the National School Lunch Program
- The history of the School Breakfast Program
Child Nutrition Studies
- Healthier Choices and Increased Participation in a Middle School Lunch Program: Effects of Nutrition Policy Changes in San Francisco (Janet M. Wojcicki, PhD, MPH, and Melvin B. Heyman, MD, MPH, American Journal of Public Health, September 2006)
- Food Insecurity Affects School Children’s Academic Performance, Weight Gain, and Social Skills (Journal of Nutrition, 12/2005, Jyoti, Frongillo & Jones)
- Breakfast and Learning: An Updated Review (Current Nutrition & Food Science, 2007, Murphy)
- The Relationship of School Breakfast to Psychosocial and Academic Functioning (Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1998, Murphy et al.)
- Diet, Breakfast and Academic Performance in Children (Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 1/1/2002, Kleinman et al.)
- Exerpts from “Statement on the links between nutrition and cognitive development in children” (Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition Policy, Tufts University, School of Nutrition Science and Policy, 1998)
- Malnutrition and the brain: changing concepts, changing concerns (Levitsky, D.A. and Strupp, B. J. ,1995, Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 125, 2212S-2220S)
- Role of Nutrition in Learning and Behavior: A Resource List for Professionals
- Nutrition and School Performance
- What is the relationship between child nutrition and school outcomes? (2006, Annik Sorhaindo and Leon Feinstein, Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No.18)
- Food Insufficiency and American School-Aged Children’s Cognitive, Academic, and Psychosocial Development (Katherine Alaimo,Christine M. Olson, and Edward A. Frongillo Jr, PEDIATRICS Vol. 108 No. 1 July 2001)
- Diet Quality and Academic Performance (MICHELLE D. FLORENCE, MSc, PDt MARK ASBRIDGE, PhD ,PAUL J. VEUGELERS, PhD. Journal of School Health d April 2008, Vol. 78, No. 4)