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...Seattle School Board's five-year contract allows only Coca-Cola products to be sold in school vending machines, and nets about $400,000 a year for school activities. In July Banzhaf and a local attorney threatened to sue the district and each school board member if the contract was renewed. The board, after a delay of several weeks, voted 4 to 3 to renew the contract anyway, but included a cancellation option, mandated that juice and water be included among vending-machine offerings and gave individual schools the option of banning sodas altogether. Steve Brown, the board vice president...
...Seattle-based Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, has been lobbying the school board for more than a year to get rid of the Coca-Cola contract. Yet, as a parent of an eighth-grader in a local public school, she says, "I don't want to see our district spending its money hiring more lawyers to fight a legal battle." Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, says, "If you want to influence the school board, you run for a seat on the board. Threatening a lawsuit is almost like blackmail...
Cooper concedes that the support she has is extraordinary. She is probably the best-paid food-services director in the country: her $95,000 salary plus generous benefits is covered by Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation, which sees Berkeley as the launchpad for a nationwide revolution. Cooper's district is also unusual in allowing her to rack up a $250,000-a-year loss. Still, she believes Berkeley's model is exportable, primarily because raw ingredients can be cheaper than processed food; the trick is to teach cafeteria cooks around the nation how to buy, store and prepare them. Meanwhile...
...black ever since. But balancing her budget while trying to boost nutrition in the 2,600 lunches served daily is tough. Mixed salad greens cost 13¢ more per serving than iceberg lettuce; a whole-wheat bun costs 5¢ more than a white one. Like every other U.S. school district, Shawnee gets no more than $2.34 per day per child from the Federal Government to provide lunch to the poorest kids. The state of Oklahoma kicks in an additional half a cent per head. The rest of the budget must come from wealthier kids who choose to buy school lunch...
...Latino audience, "You don't need papers for voting." Though she quickly corrected the slip, saying that she meant "you don't need to be a registered voter" to help the campaign, conservative talk radio hosts had a field day with the comment, which carried particular resonance in a district so near the Mexican border. Yet, even though it came back to haunt her, Busby's gaffe may ultimately hurt Republicans' ability to present a united front this fall. Strategists in both parties say that her experience will make it even more difficult for President Bush to convince House Republicans...