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Q&A with Prominent School Food Reform Advocates
3.3.2010 | iVillage
I recently conducted an online Q& A with Rochelle Davis, founding executive director of the Healthy Schools Campaign and a longtime advocate for children’s health, and Christie Vilsack (pictured), wife of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Iowa’s former first lady. Mrs. Vilsack has been a public school teacher for 25 years and is a recent grandmother. . .

Prize-winning student chefs tout healthy eats
3.3.2010 | Chicago Sun-Times
One of the items served Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives' cafeteria came all the way from Chicago. Well, not the actual meal, exactly -- the recipe. Congressmen munched on a public school lunch of chicken-vegetable jambalaya, jalapeno cornbread and cucumber salad created by a team of six culinary students from Tilden High School. And as their healthy creation was being served, the teens, winners of the Healthy Schools Campaign's 2009 "Cooking Up Change" competition, spoke at a briefing on the need to increase funding for healthy school meals.

Cooking Up Change in School Lunch Nutrition
3.3.2010 | Fooducate
This is an important week for the future of US school lunch nutrition. The Child Nutrition Act is up for re-authorization, and many groups are hoping the program will increase spending to improve the nutritional value of school lunches.

Chicago Students Cook Lunch for Congress
3.3.2010 | The Slow Food USA Blog
Earlier this week, a team of Chicago high school students traveled to Washington, D.C. to speak up for better school food, but they did not come empty-handed. The students, from the Tilden Career Community Academy, brought along their award-winning recipes. Back in October, the team of six won the Healthy Schools Campaign’s 2009 “Cooking Up Change” competition.

Kids Feed Capitol Hill To Beef Up School Lunch Money
3.2.2010 | NPR.org
The way to convince lawmakers to pony up more dollars for the school lunch program might be through their stomachs. The nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign brought students from Chicago's Tilden Career Community Hight School to prepare their ideal school lunch for Congress and visitors to Congress in Capitol Hill Visitor's Center. The group is launching a contest for kids to design their own school meals that are healthy and actually taste good. And the students brought along a few high-profile teachers and moms for good measure: USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's wife, Christie Vilsack, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's wife, Karen Duncan. . .

CPS students cook for Congress
3.2.2010 | ABC Chicago
Students from a Southwest Side school are cooking up change on Capitol Hill Tuesday. They are hoping to have some influence in getting healthier lunches in Chicago Public Schools. Six culinary students from Tilden Career Academy high School posed for pictures and then it was time to get to work. The students spent the morning slicing and dicing fresh vegetables that would be served at a congressional hearing about the Child Nutrition Act which would allocate more money for healthy school lunches. . .

Winning Students Cook on Capitol Hill—and Call for Reform
3.2.2010 | iVillage
Those calling for school food reform have traditionally included concerned, often vocal, parents. Now you can add one more group to the growing list of advocates: students themselves.Today on Capitol Hill, Lashonda Livingston, Cari Smith, Henry Walton, Jakaia Frankin and Aljibri Reed from Chicago’s Tilden Career Community High School prepared the winning meal they designed for Cooking up Change, a contest run by the nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign. . .

Chicago High School's Top Chefs Cook for Congress
3.1.2010 | NBC Chicago
First Lady Michelle Obama has been trying to get America's kids to eat healthier, and now a set of high school students from her hometown is lending a hand with a tasty recipe designed to show Congressmen what the movement's all about. Five top chefs from Tilden Career Community Academy in the Canaryville neighborhood on Chicago’s southside head to Capitol Hill Tuesday to serve U.S. Congressmen a healthy, original meal: vegetable and chicken jambalaya with spicy cheesy cornbread and tomato-cucumber salad.

Cooking Up Change
3.1.2010 | Gapers Block
This week, the Chicago-based Healthy Schools Campaign launches a national effort to increase awareness of what's served in school cafeterias and to secure more funding for the Child Nutrition Act. The program, called Cooking Up Change, kicks off tomorrow with local students from Tilden Career Community High School going to Washington, DC, to serve a healthy meal to members of Congress.

Contra la obesidad
3.1.2010 | Hoy
Menúes más saludables a partir de julio e integración de actividades físicas en sus currículos prometieron las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS). Durante un desayuno con directores de escuelas, organizado por la Campaña Escuelas Saludables (HSC), funcionarios de CPS dijeron que por iniciativa del jefe ejecutivo Ron Huberman se pedirá a los directores que integren recreo o actividades físicas en sus escuelas en la medida de sus posibilidades.

Fighting Obesity in Schools
2.26.2010 | WGN-TV
This segment spotlights Chicago Public Schools parents and school leaders gathered at HSC's Principals Breakfast for School Wellness to discuss recess, healthy school food and ways the district is responding to First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative to end childhood obesity.

Todos, 'A Moverse'
2.16.2010 | Hoy
La Campaña Escuelas Saludables ha impulsado durante los últimos años un menú saludable y recreo en las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS) para disminuir los índices de obesidad infantil, y ante la iniciativa presidencial "A Moverse", pronostica buenos cambios para la salud de los niños de esta ciudad.

Student chefs cook up change in healthy meal contest
1.29.2010 | Chicago Tribune
On Wednesday, teenagers across the district were treated to a rare delicacy: lean chicken and vegetable jambalaya, jalapeno corn bread and fresh cucumber salad. The Southern-style meal was created by six student chefs who won the annual Cooking Up Change healthy cooking contest. The team from Tilden Career Community Academy High School plans to take the meal to Washington later this winter. . .

Cooking Up Change brings healthy food to CPS
1.21.2010 | Pioneer Press
Cooking Up Change, a benefit to support the Healthy Schools Campaign, was held on Oct. 29 at Salvage One, Chicago. . . Guests also had a chance to view a video of White House Chef Sam Kass offering words of encouragement to the students and speaking of the importance of healthy school food. Young chefs created healthy, great-tasting lunch recipes they hoped would win the honor of being served at high schools across the country.

Paying for repairs a top priority of special Scotts Valley Schools meeting tonight
1.19.2010 | Santa Cruz Sentinel
This article features a high school student photographer and the photos she took of her school for HSC’s Through Your Lens project as she prepared to speak at a school board meeting about the need for funding for school building repair and maintenance.

Rethinking School Lunch
11.30.2009 | What Kids Can Do
This story features HSC and the student chefs of Cooking up Change in telling the story of the national school lunch program and current efforts to bring fresh, healthy school meals to all students.

Salud es Vida: Escuelas Saludables
11.18.2009 | Univision
This news feature spotlights HSC’s Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest and efforts to combat health disparities in Latino communities. The feature profiles last year’s cooking contest winners from Richards High School, who took the Cooking up Change message to Washington, DC in May 2009.

Local high schoolers cooking up change for their cafeterias
11.4.2009 | Chicago Tribune
"Young chefs compete to put tasty, nutritious fare on cafeteria menus." This article spotlights the student chefs of Cooking up Change, HSC's benefit and healthy cooking contest, and discusses the implications for national school food policy.

For one night, tastier lunch on the menu for students
11.4.2009 | Chicago Sun-Times
"Cooking contest a lesson in creativity, challenges for school system" This article includes reflections on HSC's Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest and the tremendous challenges schools face in serving healthy, tasty meals.

Cooking competition promotes healthy eating in Chicago schools
11.03.2009 | Medill News Service
This article and accompanying video profile the student chefs of the Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest and provide an overview of the policy issues surrounding school food.

Cooking up Change
11.2009 | Chicago Defender
This article in The Chicago Defender covered the Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest and the winning student chefs.

Healthy Schools Campaign Hosts Fund-Raiser With Student Chefs
11.03.2009 | BizBash Chicago
This story gives readers a glimpse of the Cooking up Change benefit and healthy cooking contest, with an overview of the event as well as the culinary competition.

The road to a healthy family
10.29.2009 | Chicago Tribune
Jovita Flores and Rosa Guzman of HSC’s Parents United for Healthy Schools are spotlighted in this article about Chicago-area mothers making healthy changes for their families.

CPS students compete in culinary contest
10.29.2009 | ABC-7
This news segment shows HSC's Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest and advocacy for healthy school meals.

Cooking up Change
10.29.2009 | CBS-2
CBS-2 presented a news segment highlighting the Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest, with a spotlight on the student chefs.

Healthy Schools Benefit: Band Camp(aign)
10.21.2009 | IdealBite
"This one time. . . would you swap a standard restaurant dinner for one that'll support kids' health? March to the Cooking Up Change benefit at Salvage One, where teams of CPS students (all in high school cooking classes) compete to make a tasty and nutritious lunch using local produce like corn and antioxidant-rich blueberries. . . "

Panelists say healthy eating begins at school
10.15.2009 | Naperville Sun
"What better place to teach kids the importance of eating healthier than in the very place they learn every day?" begins this article highlighting the messages from HSC's Food for Thought event at Whole Foods Market in Naperville, Ill.

Trophy Lunch
10.6.2009 | Mindful Metropolis
HSC’s Cooking up Change Healthy Cooking Contest is spotlighted in this article on "how Chicago Public Schools students are reinventing cafeteria food, and what it means for the future of school lunches."

Hill Talk: From Students’ Lenses
10.5.2009 | Roll Call
This article highlights the Through Your Lens exhibit and opening reception on Capitol Hill presented by HSC, Critical Exposure and the 21st Century School Fund. The exhibit featured student photos of their school building conditions nationwide: what they're proud of and what they'd like to change.

The Politics of School Lunches
8.24.2009 | Uprising Radio
HSC’s founding executive director Rochelle Davis is interviewed in this radio segment on the importance of healthy school meals and the political opportunities to make changes to the federal food program.

Stars Aligning on School Lunches
8.19.2009 | The New York Times
HSC’s founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this article on the growing movement to change the future of school food.

Advocating for Healthier Schools
August 2009 | Oprah's Angel Network
As the public’s awareness grows about the importance of eating a diet high in fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains, the problem of affording and accessing these foods remains a struggle for many. Count America’s public schools among those struggling to keep up. . .

School's Green Roots Go Deep
7.22.2009 | Chicago Tribune
HSC's deputy director Mark Bishop and board member Vince Iturralde are both quoted in this story about Tarkington School, the first LEED-certified green school in Chicago, and the Chicago Public Schools environmental action efforts.

Green Clean Schools Movement Accelerating
6.12.2009 | CleanLink
As schools around the U.S. increasingly switch to green cleaning programs in efforts to protect student and staff health, legislators in at least four more states have passed green clean schools legislation. The movement’s momentum during times of economic hardship for school districts and cleaning companies underscores the practical, cost-effective nature of green cleaning. "What we’re seeing is a real movement as more school leaders recognize green cleaning as a simple change that goes miles in protecting the health of everyone in the school building,” said Mark Bishop, deputy director of the Healthy Schools Campaign.

Enlist For-Profits To Lobby For Your Cause
6.2.2009 | The NonProfit Times
This article in The NonProfit Times details HSC’s efforts to work with corporate partners in advocacy efforts, particularly green clean schools policy. “If I can bring my corporate partners down there and make sure their voices are heard, where we have this intersection of interest, it became a really powerful message to have corporations, health advocates, environmental advocates, education advocates all walking arm in arm,” says HSC deputy director Mark Bishop in the article.

Move over, peanut butter and jelly: School meals redefined
6.2.2009 | Medill Reports
Sixteen-year-old Rafael Ruiz never dreamed he’d be preparing a meal for Congress with President Obama’s personal chef by his side – much less using a menu Ruiz himself helped create...

Cooking up wellness: Chicago's Healthy Schools Campaign
6.2.2009 | Medill Reports
Parents, community members and nutrition experts joined forces to support the Healthy Schools Campaign at a recent Chicago breakfast briefing...

On Today's Menu: Healthful School Lunch
5.5.2009 | The Washington Post
Today six culinary students from the Richards Career Academy in Chicago will join White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass at Martha's Table, where they will cook their idea of a perfect school lunch. On the menu: carrot quesadillas, chicken-stuffed peppers and a "refrescante" (a.k.a. salsa) salad. The meal also will be served to House members and staffers at the Longworth Cafeteria and to 40,000 students at schools across the country. . .

Food for Life: Kids Get to Cook for Congress
5.5.2009 | CNN
This television news segment features HSC’s Rochelle Davis discussing the need for increased funding for better school food and spotlights the student chefs from Richards Career Academy, winners of HSC’s Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest, as they prepare a healthy school meal with White House chef Sam Kass.

Carrot quesadilla wins school lunch contest
5.5.2009 | CNN
Carrot quesadilla doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, nor does it conjure up images of traditional Tex-Mex fare. But Chicago high school student Rafael Ruiz said he and his classmates came up with the contest-winning idea after thinking that a normal quesadilla didn’t look too colorful. “We’re thinking, what if we add carrots. We had carrots, and we’re like, lets try some carrots and add them and see how it tastes,” Ruiz said. “And it’s also healthy so, let’s try it. And we tried it and it tastes pretty good.”

Healthy Kitchen Kass-ual: White House Chef Sam Kass Cooks With Chicago Culi Students
5.5.2009 | Obama Foodorama
Perhaps the President had to go out to lunch yesterday because White House assistant chef Sam Kass was cooking at Martha's Table in Washington. Mr. Kass joined six lucky culinary students from Chicago's Richards Career Academy high school to cook their award-winning recipe for the annual Cooking Up Change contest sponsored by Healthy Schools Campaign. The non-profit HSC organization works on a variety of school issues, and yesterday's Cinco de Mayo event was the kickoff for a national campaign to focus attention on children's school lunches,in advance of the upcoming refunding of the Child Nutrition Act . .

Cooking with Obama's Chef
5.5.2009 | The Denver Daily News
Six students from Chicago’s Richards Career Academy prepared a healthy lunch with White House chef Sam Kass in honor of the Healthy Schools Campaign’s “Cooking Up Change” program, a nationwide effort and model designed to bring better food into America’s schools. The six students won a contest to create a meal that was both healthy and delicious – and the meal was served in select school lunchrooms across the country yesterday, including Denver at Cory and Montclair Elementary Schools. The meal included stuffed pepper, carrot quesadilla and fresh fruit salad.

A Smarter Way to Clean America’s Schools
April 2009 | ISSA Today
HSC’s Rochelle Davis discusses the need for green cleaning in schools, strategies that schools are implementing to make schools healthier, and changes in the marketplace to support green cleaning in schools.

Green Guidance
April 2009 | ISSA Today
In this column, HSC’s Mark Bishop provides an overview of green clean schools policies in states around the U.S.

Healthy School Environments through State and Local Advocacy: School Nurses in Action
March 2009 | NASN School Nurse
This article spotlights school nurse Donna Rehm and her work with HSC to advocate for state-level green clean schools policy. The story discusses HSC’s School Nurse Leadership Training and the role of school nurses in advocacy.

Comida Saludable + 30 Minutos de Actividad = Bienestar Integral
March 2009 | Hoy
This story features HSC’s Jovita Flores and her work with parents in Chicago’s Latino communities to promote healthy eating and physical activity in schools.

A foodie wish list for President Obama
2.4.2009 | Chicago Tribune
This feature spotlights HSC’s Rochelle Davis and her hopes for federal policy change related to school food, along with the hopes of other Chicago-area food activists.

It May Be Clean -- But Is It Green?
January 2009 | School Nutrition Magazine
This article highlights HSC's green cleaning program, including The Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools, and discusses the ways that green cleaning is especially relevant in school food service.

Cooking up Change
12.4.2008 | CPS Right Now
This video segment, which aired on two Chicago television stations, tells the story of high school student chefs competing in HSC's Cooking up Change Healthy Cooking Contest.

More schools cultivate learning in student gardens
11.17.2008 | Chicago Tribune
HSC school wellness director Jean Saunders is quoted in this story about school gardens around the U.S. that provide learning opportunities for students.

Chefs of tomorrow cooking up change today
11.12.2008 | Chicago Defender
On Oct. 23, teams of high school students studying culinary arts in Chicago Public Schools presented to a crowd of 400-plus just how tasty and how healthy school lunch can really be. The fundraiser benefited the Healthy School Campaign, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving child health through greener environment, exercise awareness and nutrition.

Padres y maestros combaten la obesidad infantil en escuelas hispanas Chicago
9.30.2008 | MSN.com Latino
This story profiles the work of HSC's Parents United for Healthy Schools. The story was picked up by Spanish-language news outlets around the U.S. and Mexico, including Yahoo! Noticias, El Universal, KBNT San Diego, and more.

America’s Healthiest Schools
September 2008 | Health
HSC’s founding executive director Rochelle Davis is spotlighted in Health magazine as a "healthy-school expert" in the magazine’s feature on America’s Healthiest Schools. The story profiles school wellness programs around the nation.

Second green cleaning guide released by Healthy Schools Campaign
9.15.2008 | Facilities Management News
The Healthy Schools Campaign, a nonprofit advocate for healthy school environments, has released the second edition of its Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools. Improved and expanded, the guide includes new sections on sustainability, green cleaning for food service, integrated pest management, and other new technologies. It follows the distribution of more than 70,000 copies of the original guide.

Sustainability 101: Schools Go Green
September 2008 | 365: Living Green Everyday
This interview with HSC founding executive director Rochelle Davis addresses green cleaning in schools, school sustainability efforts and more.

Second Edition of Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools Released
9.12.2008 | CleanLink News
Healthy Schools Campaign announced the release of the improved and expanded second edition of the Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools. The second edition includes new sections on sustainability, green cleaning for food service, integrated pest management, new technologies and more.

HSC Announces First National Summit
9.9.2008 | ISSA News
The Healthy Schools Campaign announced it will hold a Green Clean Schools National Summit November 12, 2008, in Washington, D.C. The announcement was made in a joint, live press conference held with representatives from HSC and two of its strong supporters, ISSA and The Ashkin Group.

Green Cleaning in Schools
8.5.2008 | ISSAtv
This educational video from ISSAtv features HSC founding executive director Rochelle Davis discussing green cleaning in schools, with an emphasis on the five simple steps to a healthy school environment outlined in HSC’s Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools.

Blue Island school to add fresh fruit and veggies to the mix
7.20.2008 | Southtown Star
HSC’s Jean Saunders is quoted in this article about a program providing fresh fruits and vegetables to schoolchildren.

Green Cleaning Awards and Webinars Bring New Opportunities for Schools
7.3.2008 | ICS Cleaning Specialist
This article highlights HSC’s green cleaning webinar series and the national Green Cleaning in Schools award presented by HSC, the Green Cleaning Network and American School & University magazine.

Green Cleaners Required in Illinois Schools
5.15.2008 | AP
This article, which appeared in news sources around the U.S., quotes HSC’s Mark Bishop and features HSC friend Bill Thompson of Lockport Township High School. The article details the impact of the Green Clean Schools Act and the benefits it provides for children’s health.

Going Green to Clean Schools
5.04.2008 | Daily Herald
This article discusses implementation of the Green Clean Schools Act, referencing Healthy Schools Campaign and quoting deputy director Mark Bishop.

What's Next? Hamburger Helper at Harvard?
5.02.2008 | The Boston Globe
This article about schools' response to rising food costs quotes HSC's Jean Saunders.

Chicago's First LEED-Built Green School Teaches the A, B, Es of Eco Lessons
4.29.2008 | Medill News Service
More than a dozen eighth-graders served as expert tour guides who dazzled visitors with details about the architecture and benefits of Chicago’s first official green school, the Tarkington School for Excellence. The school actually opened several years ago but students and school officials shared the success story Tuesday on National Healthy Schools Day.

New law to make cleaning schools more environmentally friendly
4.20.2008 | Quad-Cities Online
This article about the Green Clean Schools Act quotes HSC's Mark Bishop and discusses the ways in which green cleaning benefits student health.

Lake Zurich school district confronts mold concerns
4.7.2008 | Pioneer Local
HSC's Mark Bishop is quoted in this article about indoor air quality concerns in a suburban Chicago school.

Univision News: Recess
4.7.2008 | Univision-Chicago (Channel 66)
HSC's Guillermo Gomez and parents involved with HSC's Parents United for Healthy Schools were featured in a Univision News segment on recess.

Kids dig healthy eating
3.20.2008 | Pioneer Local
Childhood obesity. Little kids with high blood pressure. Elementary school students with diet-related type II diabetes. These are serious health problems that parents didn't much encounter during the early 1900s, when many schools that served lunch grew their own produce. But a recent movement in the north suburbs is afoot to get more nutritious food on kids' plates, the way it was done long ago -- direct from local gardens.

Nurse leads South Central into new wave of healthy behavior
1.25.2008 | Salem Times-Commoner
This article profiles the accomplishments of School Nurse Michelle Blomberg, including the healthy changes she’s made throughout her school since her involvement in HSC’s School Nurse Leadership Program.

Putting heat on school menus
12.31.2007 | Chicago Tribune
Fighting childhood obesity has become a pet cause for Susan and Robert Rogers and their Hanover Park-based family-owned business, School Health Corp., a supplier to school nurses and athletic trainers. "It drives me crazy when I see chicken fingers and french fries on the lunch menu," said Robert Rogers, executive vice president of the 100-employee firm. That's why Rogers is cutting back on his corporate duties next year to spend more time working pro bono for the Healthy Schools Campaign, a Chicago-based not-for-profit.

Chicago’s Very Own: Healthy School Lunch
12.28.2007 | WGN-Chicago
This segment featured HSC’s work with the Noble Network of Charter Schools to bring healthy, freshly-prepared food to the school cafeteria.

Green Cleaning Award For Schools & Universities [pdf]
12.21.2007 | American School & University
This special issue of American School & University magazine highlights the winners of the Green Cleaning Award program sponsored by Healthy Schools Campaign, the Green Cleaning Network and American School & University. HSC’s Rochelle Davis and Claris Olson are profiled as judges along with Steve Ashkin, author of HSC’s Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools. Criteria for judging the competition were based on the Quick & Easy Guide.

Cleaning Up Our Act
November 2007 | Building Operating Management
HSC's Claris Olson is quoted in this article on the why and how-to of green cleaning in schools.

Student chefs create healthy school fare
10.19.2007 | Chicago Sun-Times
The team of six chefs -- sporting embroidered white jackets and chef hats -- huddled around a plate, as one tried delicately to balance two broccoli spears next to a molded cup of rice. Another stood by with a rag and wiped up every errant fleck of sauce. Despite the attention to detail, these were not chefs at Chicago's culinary hot spots, but rather students at Englewood Academy High School. They came from one of 15 Chicago public schools that competed Thursday night in "Cooking Up Change," a contest sponsored by the Healthy Schools Campaign.

Students compete in healthy school lunch contest
10.19.2007 | Chicago Tribune
Within the splendid clutter of Salvage One, the repository of old architectural artifacts, teams of anxious young cooks scurried by in their white uniforms carrying trays of food. They were preparing for the “Cooking Up Change Healthy Cooking Contest,” a challenge for high school students to develop a healthful school lunch entree, plus appetizer and dessert.

Video: Culinary Students Face Cooking Challenge
10.19.2007 | NBC5 Chicago
This raw video filmed at Cooking up Change, HSC’s annual benefit, shows Chicago Public Schools culinary students preparing for the healthy cooking contest that was the focus of the event.

The 8th Annual Good Eating Awards: Rochelle Davis
10.17.2007 | Chicago Tribune
HSC’s Founding Executive Director Rochelle Davis is profiled in this article as one of the winners of the 2007 Chicago Tribune Good Eating Awards, for her work highlighting “the positive connection between good food, good living and good health.”

Cleaning for Health
9.24.2007 | Housekeeping Solutions
HSC's Claris Olson is quoted in this article about starting and maintaining a green cleaning program.

Back to School, Back to Health and Safety: Best Practices to Protect Teachers and Staff
9.18.2007 | OSHA Compliance Advisor
This article profiles HSC's work to improve the health and safety of those who work in school buildings.

Run with David: Chicago Marathon
9.17.2007 | Runner's World
Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and honorary team captain of HSC's team running The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, is featured in this Runner's World profile.

Schools Ripe for Green Cleaning
9.6.2007 | Contracting Profits
After years spent hovering just below the radar, green cleaning and cleaning for health movements have exploded — thanks in part to an increasing concern for the environments in which we live.

Many suburban schools plow down conservation path
8.19.2007 | Daily Herald
HSC's Mark Bishop is quoted in this story about environmentally responsible choices that students and teachers are making at school.

Food Affair — The French Approach to Healthy Eating and Enjoyment
August 2007 | Today’s Dietitian
The women may or may not get fat, but one thing seems clear: the French have a love-love relationship with food. Attendees of a recent educational forum got a taste of the country’s culinary culture, especially in its schools — a taste that may shed light on how to improve the health of American children.

Green Cleaning Awards to Honor School Programs
7.24.07 | GreenBiz
Janitorial product manufacturers, distributors and service providers for educational institutions are invited to enter the first Green Cleaning Award for Schools and Universities. The Green Cleaning Network, Healthy Schools Campaign and American School & University magazine launched the contest to recognize outstanding green cleaning programs.

Getting from Here to Green
July 2007 | Cleaning and Maintenance Management
HSC is recommended as a resource in this article offering guidance on how to identify green products.

Illinois Becomes Second State to Require Green Cleaning in Schools
May/June 2007| Maintenance Sales News
The success of an HSC-led coalition to champion green cleaning policy for Illinois schools is highlighted in this article.

What's Wrong with School Lunch?
5.25.07 | Chicago Reader
On the first day Greg Christian served lunch at Louisa May Alcott, a public elementary school in Lincoln Park, a student looked at his options and was appalled. “He said, ‘Ew, the peas are green,’” Christian says. “The teacher had to explain that’s the color they’re supposed to be."

Illinois Becomes Second State to Pass Green Cleaning Law
5.21.07 | GreenBiz
Children, teachers, and school staff in Illinois will soon breathe a little easier during the school day. With a 52-5 vote in the Senate today, Illinois became only the second state to enact legislation requiring green cleaning in schools.

Green Clean Schools Act Would Impact Schools Statewide
5.06.07 | The Southern
New state legislation aimed at making cleaning supplies for school districts more environmentally friendly appears to be well on its way to passing both houses of the General Assembly.

Class Caters to Healthy Life
4.27.07 | Chicago Tribune
Jean Saunders, HSC director of school wellness, cooks a healthy meal for students at Pritzker College Prep, a Chicago charter school, and discusses the importance of access to healthy food.

Introducing systems change in the schools: the case of school luncheons and vending machines
4.21.07 | American Journal of Community Psychology
A major public health crisis facing America’s society is the increase in child and youth obesity, which has seen a fourfold increase in the last four decades. Major concerns include what children eat for school lunch and what other foods are available in schools. This paper illustrates efforts towards systems change in the luncheon program and food vending machines in the Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago Schools Helping Students Battle Obesity
3.22.07 | Fox Chicago News at Nine
Guillermo Gomez, HSC Chicago director, is featured in this news segment, along with a family involved with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, one of HSC's community partners.

Chicago Parents Get Serious About Childhood Obesity
3.12.07 | Medill News Service/Chi-Town Daily News
Also picked up by: The Times (Northwest Indiana), Chicago Defender, Austin Weekly News

Bill Aims to Clean Up Air in Illinois Schools
2.22.07 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Improving School Environments Through Green Cleaning
2.5.07 | Education World
As research mounts about the link between indoor air quality and health, and as more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally-friendly cleaning agents. Included: Descriptions of green cleaning programs and how to implement them.

2006

Interview on WPR
12.28.06 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Jean Saunders, HSC Director of School Wellness, discusses the state of school nutrion and takes questions from callers. Listen to the program online now (one hour). WPR members can download the program for future listening.

Healthy Schools Campaign Joins Industry Leaders to Promote Green Cleaning
12.4.06 | FacilityBlog from Today's Facility Manager

Green Certification
December 2006 | Sanitary Maintenance

All the Buzz
11.30.06 | Campus Facilities Maintenance
This year at the ISSA/Interclean show held in Chicago, Illinois, Green Cleaning was once again all the craze.

Green Cleaning Network Launched (PDF)
11.15.06 | Green Cleaning Network Press Release
HSC Executive Director Rochelle Davis is one of the founding members of a new Green Cleaning Network, which includes schools, healthcare facilities, office buildings and lodging facilities as well as cleaning professionals and policy makers and advocates. Stephen Ashkin, author of HSC's Quick & Easy Guide to Green Clean Schools, is the network's executive director.

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Major food companies kick off healthy eating initiative
11.15.06 | Medill News Service
Parents who are losing steam in the peaches versus Pringles debate can take heart in an initiative 10 major food companies have launched.

Free Guide Simplifies Green Cleaning in Schools
11.14.06 | PTA: This Week in Washington
Providing a safe and healthy school environment should be a primary concern for school administrators, school staff, and parents.

Healthy Schools Campaign Releases Green Handbook
10.06 | Contracting Profits (Newsbrief)

Tax swap is only way to fix schools
10.11.06 | Chicago Sun-Times
Story on the coalition Speak Out for Illinois Schools, of which HSC is a member

Research Finds School Salad Bar Success Tied to Nutrition Education in the Classroom
10.10.06 | PRNewswire
Press release on the success of a pilot salad bar program at Namaste Charter School that combined access to healthy food and classroom nutrition education. HSC has worked closely with Namaste on this pilot project.

Green Cleaning Guide Debuts at ISSA
10.3.06 | Cleanfax.com (Newsbrief)

Eliminating Childhood Obesity: Best Practices for Communities and Schools
9.22.06 | Road to Health Expo, Baltimore, Md.
Guillermo Gomez, HSC Chicago Director and Project Director of the HSC-led Partnership to Reduce Asthma and Obesity in Latino Schools, took part in a national, televised town hall meeting and panel discussion on childhood obesity that was moderated by radio and television journalist Tavis Smiley. C-SPAN covered the event, which also included Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League. Video is available from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Back to School: Students Will See a Food Makeover
10.23.06 | Chicago Tribune
Our nation's schools have emerged as a primary battlefield in the fight against childhood obesity.

Put Your District on a Green Cleaning Path (PDF)
8.10.06 | Managing School Business
Features highlights and a preview of HSC's Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools

Parent's Rally for Healthy Food
Under the banner "Healthy Food + Exercise = Better Students," more than 700 parents and children from across the city came together on Thursday May 25 at the Humboldt Park Boathouse to call for improved school food, nutrition education, more PE, and the restoration of recess in the Chicago Public Schools.

• 5.23.06 | Parents call for crack down on childhood obesity (Medill News Service)
• 5.25.06 | Piden más actividades físicas para escuelas (Hoy)
• 6.1.06 | The Obesity Epidemic: Its Effect On Chicago Children (Extra)

Healthy Schools Campaign on NBC Channel 5
4.26.06 | NBC Channel 5
Mark Bishop, HSC Deputy Director, discusses the new state nutrition standards

Schools Need to Plan, Not Just Ban, to Have Impact on Childhood Obesity
2.28.06 | The Rock River Times
Guest column by Rochelle Davis, HSC Executive Director
Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s renewed attempt to ban junk food in Illinois elementary and middle schools serves as a reminder of the important role schools can play in addressing the problem of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents.

Healthy Schools Campaign Releases Healthy School Construction Guide
2.7.06 | Press Release
Architects, area school supintendents and school board medias joined HSC in announcing the release of HSC's Healthy, High Performing School Buildings Guide. Media coverage round-up follows press release.

2005

Healthy Schools Campaign to Launch "The Student Body Challenge" to Address Childhood Obesity in Schools
10.14.05 | Press Release
A recent survey of parents of school-aged children conducted by the national Action for Healthy Kids consortium found that while the majority of parents want their children to get healthier food and more exercise at school, nearly 85% were unaware that federal law requires their schools to develop comprehensive wellness policies addressing these issues by July 1, 2006.

Bayless Authors to Appear for Charity
6.1.05 | Chicago Tribune
It's another big adventure for Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill and daughter Lanie. The Bayless duo, authors of Rick and Lanie's Exellent Kitchen Adventures: Recipes and Stories, will make a special appearance during the Cooking Up Change Charity event taking place June 9 at the Riverworks Campus of Kendall College.

New Legislation Takes Aim At Childhood Obesity
4.7.05 | Press Release
New proposed legislation and a model policy designed to help schools tackle the serious problem of childhood obesity are being unveiled at a press conference today in the State Capitol.

2004

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