CNN.com/AP: "HCZ High Marks for Healthy Food"

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Created on Monday, 16 January 2006 05:00

"As educators around the country struggle to provide healthful school lunches -- and to get junk-food-happy children to eat them -- Promise Academy is taking an unusually aggressive stance. It not only bans sugary snacks, but offers healthy cooking classes for parents and sponsors a monthly farmer's market where a voucher buys a big bag of Hudson Valley carrots or winter squash." (Karen Matthews, Associated Press)