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| | Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act 2/8/2007 11:35 AMAs you know, momentum is building to get soda and junk food out of schools nationwide. One remaining barrier is that many principals, school board members, and other school officials oppose such efforts for fear that their schools will lose revenue. Yet, experience is showing that switching to healthier foods does not have to cause schools to lose money. We need your help to reach out to school officials to ask them to urge key education organizations (such as the National School Board Association, National Middle School Association, and National Association of Secondary School Principals) to support the Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act. (While the current bill is set to expire at the end of 2006, its sponsors plan to reintroduce it in early 2007.) Please send an email to school principals and school board members in your community. You can do this by: 1) Locating your local principal’s and school board members’ email addresses, which are often available on school and school board websites; 2) Sending the email message below to those principals and school board members and ask them to sign the form below and email it to Dana Roberts at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), at droberts@cspinet.org (or they can fax it to 202-265-4954); 3) If you need help identifying local school officials, contact Dana Roberts at CSPI for assistance: droberts@cspinet.org or call 202-777-8352. If you have any questions about PTAs efforts on this issue, please contact Tina Dove in the PTA Office of Programs and Public Policy at tdove@pta.org or call (202) 289-6790. | |
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