Thursday, June 22, 2006

Schools fail nutrition report card; 23 states get an F

Almost half of all states received a failing grade in a school foods report card issued Tuesday by a nonprofit group that evaluated school nutrition policies.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington, D.C., gave an F to 23 states and a D to eight others after evaluating school policies regarding foods and beverages sold in campus vending machines, school stores and school fundraisers.

Only one state, Kentucky, scored an A, or actually, an A-.

Five states got a B+ — Nevada, Arkansas, New Mexico, Alabama and California. New Jersey, Arizona and Tennessee each got a B, and four others — Louisiana, West Virginia, Connecticut and Florida — earned a B-.

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