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Cash-Strapped Chicago School System Spent Millions on Junk Food

Chicago Public Schools spent millions of dollars to bring in food and beverages from area restaurants and catering companies, including more than $500,000 since July, and now the district says it ... read more

Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy

The food mega-giant, Chartwells Thompson, just won a ginormous contract from the federal government contract to provide a free breakfast to every single Chicago Public School ... For a system as ... read more

Emanuel: CPS likely to borrow against extra $45 million property tax increase

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday that cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools is likely to borrow against a $45 million property tax increase he ... and capability to actually make a modern school system,” ... read more

Chicago's CFO says schools bankruptcy isn't on the table

The long Illinois budget impasse "creates uncertainty for our school system," said Carole Brown ... said. The junk-rated district also wants more state pension help that’s provided to other districts. ... read more

Parents, food service directors debate snacks sneaking into kids’ diets at school

One person’s healthy snack is junk food in the ... director of food and nutrition services for the Montgomery school system, which serves more than 70,000 meals a day. In fiscal 2010, Montgomery ... read more

Musings on a Monday After Teaching High School Get You Down? Nope!

Why this is a police state, and a policed school system. They get it and don’t think ... We talk about the consequences of unintended fallout from all the junk and plastic products and chemicals laced ... read more

Teachers Call On McDonald’s To End McTeacher’s Nights

Today, groups and unions representing some 3 million ... cash-strapped schools to market its junk food brand, while miring its workers in poverty, effectively hollowing out the tax base for our ... read more

How Junk Food Can End Obesity

The friendly server patiently guided me to an apple-blueberry-kale-carrot smoothie-juice combination, which she spent ... Fast food and junk food have their core customer base, and the wholesome-food ... read more

Chicago Public Schools Under Fire Over Dirty Conditions, Rotten Food

The Chicago Public School system has faced notorious budget cuts in recent ... Aramark's three-year, $260 million contract will save the cash-strapped district $40 million to $54 million over its life ... read more

The fast-food industry’s $4.2 billion marketing blitz

And it is in the cafeteria, I think, where the fast-food industry’s marketing efforts could be effectively rebuffed. Unfortunately, I don’t have much good news here, either. Currently, we spend ... ... read more

Fox Valley schools ponder ways to bridge state funding shortfall

Bruce Rauner has dismissed several plans as bailouts for cash-strapped Chicago ... schools and allow the district to spend money on longer-term expenses, such as hiring additional staff to lower class ... read more