Board Policy

BP 3550

Business and Noninstructional Operations

Food Service/Child Nutrition Program

The Board of Education recognizes that students need adequate, nourishing food in order to grow, learn and maintain good health. To reinforce the district's nutrition education program, foods available on school premises shall be:

1. Carefully selected so as to contribute to students' nutritional well-being and the prevention of disease

2. Prepared in ways which will appeal to students, retain nutritive quality and foster healthful eating habits

3. Served in age-appropriate quantities and at reasonable prices

(cf. 3553 - Free and Reduced Price Meals)

(cf. 3554 - Other Food Sales)

(cf. 6142.8 - Comprehensive Health Education)

The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that the meals offered by the district's food service program meet the nutritional standards and dietary guidelines required for participation in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

The Superintendent or designee shall establish procedures whereby students and parents/guardians may participate in the selection of foods of good nutritional quality for school menus. Parents/guardians are encouraged to also consider nutritional quality and support the district's nutrition education efforts when selecting any snacks which they may donate for occasional class parties.

To the extent permitted under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, students in all grades shall be allowed to decline parts of their meal which they do not intend to consume.

Legal Reference:

EDUCATION CODE

38080-38103 Cafeterias - establishment and use

45103.5 Contracts for management consulting services; restrictions

49490-49493 School breakfast and lunch programs

49500-49505 School meals

49510-49520 Nutrition

49530-49536 Child Nutrition Act of 1974

49540 - 49546 Child care food program

49547-48548.3 Comprehensive nutrition services

49550-49560 Meals for needy students

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5

15500-15501 Food sales by student organizations

15510 Mandatory meals for needy students

15530-15535 Nutrition education

15550-15565 School lunch and breakfast programs

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, TITLE 7

210-220 National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program

Management Resources:

CDE PROGRAM ADVISORIES

1200.89 Nutrition and Its Partnership with Education, FSB:89/90-6

SBE POLICIES

Nutritional Quality of Foods and Beverages Available in California Public Schools, 1/92

Nutrition Education and Training, 1/92

Establishment of Local Policies on Nutritional Quality of Food and Beverage Sales on Public School Campuses, 1/92

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

1990 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services, 1990

Policy PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

adopted: March 22, 2001 Palos Verdes Estates, California