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LUNCH LOBBY While school lunches have got healthier, kids are still getting chubbier as the cafeteria menu increasingly competes with in-school soft-drink and snack machines. School nutrition directors last week urged Congress to regulate these unhealthy temptations. But the lunch lobby may be in for a tough battle. Cash-strapped schools rely on the sales for extra funds...
...Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education (CACE) has found a 10-year overall increase of 395 percent in press citations discussing commercializing activity in schools. Analyzing the number of press citations gives only an approximate measure of the actual growth of school commercialism. However, the increased media attention to activities such as exclusive vendor agreements with soft drink bottlers, the promotion of junk food and hair care products through in-school sampling and the privatization of public schools in deals with for-profit management companies, suggests that the presence of marketers in schools is indeed growing...
...through 12 in Lockney Independent School District. Believing that the best way to combat teenage drug use is to force every kid to pee in a cup to prove he or she does not use drugs, the school board passed a policy in which all students, not just those involved in athletics, would be required to "volunteer" to take a random drug test. If their parents do not give their permission, the student is treated as if he or she had tested positive for drugs. The penalty for testing positive is three days of in-school suspension and missing...
...Monday's New York Times, Tannahill, whose 12-year-old son, Brady, attends the local middle school, filed suit against the Lockney, Texas, school district for violating his and his son's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches. School officials aren't looking for guns or knives on Brady: Like every student in Lockney's public middle and high schools, Brady is required to undergo periodic drug tests. Refusal to take the test provokes the same punishment as a positive test result: An in-school three-day suspension...
...Harvard students, CityStep is a program that mixes two of their passions: dance and children. Whether as an in-school teacher who wakes up early twice a week to work with a class of fifth-grade Cambridge public school students, or as an after-school teacher who meets twice a week in the Quad, each Harvard volunteer makes a huge commitment to the program, the other teachers and most importantly their students...