Evaluation

"A Health Impact Assessment detailing the potential impacts of Oregon’s 2011 Farm to School and School Garden legislation"
May 2011

F2SHIA_FINAL.pdf

"School nutrition programs provide over 5 billion meals each year to students. These
meals can be served using reusable ware, disposable ware, or a combination of the two.
School nutrition programs consider many different factors when deciding what
combination of reusable and disposable ware items make the most sense to use in their
program. These factors include cost, available facilities/equipment, and customer
behavior. While cost is usually the primary factor in this decision, increasingly schools

Life Cycle Environmental and Cost Analysis of Disposable and Reusale Ware in School Cafeterias.pdf

From the Center For Ecoliteracy
Download the whole report here: http://www.thelunchbox.org/content/changing-students-knowledge-attitudes...
"The School Lunch Initiative — launched as a collaboration among the Center for Ecoliteracy, Chez Panisse Foundation, and Berkeley Unified School District in 2004 — was one of the first comprehensive school lunch reform efforts in the nation.

sli_eval_exec_summary_2010.pdf

This 2008 study details the impact of salad bars at five schools in the Oakland (CA) Unified School District (OUSD). The purpose of the study was to document and assess the various methods each school adopted to introduce, manage and sustain their school salad bar. Five schools (two elementary, three middle) participated in the study. Issues addressed in the five case studies include implementation, training, formal and informal nutrition education, role of parent and student volunteers, peer education, food security, and funding.

OUSDSaladbarFINAL.pdf