School cafeterias in Pasco County apparently are just the place for vegetarians. ...more

March 18, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The price of breakfast and lunch in school cafeterias could be going up. ...more

February 15, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Elementary school students accustomed to pizza in the cafeteria every Friday need to adjust their culinary expectations. ...more

February 6, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The percentage of Pasco County students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals is on the rise and expected to top 50 percent by the end of February, the school district reported Thursday. ...more

January 16, 2009

Evidence of the flagging economy's local effect can be found as close as your neighborhood school's lunch line. ...more

September 24, 2008

For the first time, more than half of all students in Hillsborough County public schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. ...more

September 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School District is considering replacing its outdated computer software with something new that could handle nearly all of the functions for running the day-to-day business operations of the district. ...more

September 5, 2008

The new school year will bring higher lunch prices as the School Board of Highlands County's Food and Nutrition Department contends with rising costs. ...more

July 14, 2008

SEBRING — Hundreds of corn dogs and turkey and cheese melt sandwiches were served Thursday to Highlands County children through the Summer Food Service Program. That was just lunch. The program, which is administered by the Highlands County School District's Food and Nutrition Services Department, also serves up free breakfasts and snacks to children and youth from birth through 18 years of age. Cub City Learning Center voluntary pre-K instructor Yolonda Evans had 22 of her 4- and 5-year-olds eating lunch at Sebring Middle School on Thursday. ...more

June 13, 2008

For the time being, schoolchildren in Manatee and Charlotte counties will have to get by on spaghetti without meatballs, vegetarian chili and nachos without taco meat. Both districts joined hundreds of others across the country that pulled beef from school menus this week as federal regulators investigate the possible use of sick and injured cattle by a California meat supplier. ...more

February 6, 2008