Junk food: bad for students, good for school district budget
May 7, 2008
The Daily News reports, “Banning soda and snack food from the Philadelphia School District in 2006 was meant to make students healthier, but it has also had an unintended effect: the loss of $2 million to $3 million in revenue to the district each year.”
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