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Chicago Cooking up Change Winners Exhibit Award-Winning Recipe
5.16.12 | WFLD-TV 32 (FOX affiliate)
Cooking up Change Chicago winners demonstrate their award-winning meal and their excitement as they head to the national contest. The Chicago Vocational Career Academy students will compete against teams of student chefs from Denver, Jacksonville, Santa Ana, St. Louis, and Winston-Salem.

Students Serve Antibiotic-Free Chicken Lunch on Capitol Hill
5.15.12 | Food Safety News
Chicago student chefs prepared their Cooking up Change student created meal before lawmakers. The group created a scratch, healthy and antibiotic-free to raise awareness around antibiotics in food production.

Competition has Santa Ana students ‘Cooking Up Change'
5.13.12 | Orange County Register
Cooking up Change Santa Ana competitors share their excitement for the national healthy cooking contest. This year marks the first time a local contest was held in Santa Ana.

Groups Offer Ways for Feds to Improve Student Well-Being
5.11.12 | Education Week
Noting the strong link between students’ health and their ability to learn, health advocates want the federal departments of Education and Health and Human Services to make a few small changes they believe could improve students’ academic and physical well-being and work to close achievement gaps.

The chicken that flew from Chicago to Capitol Hill
5.10.12 | The Washington Post
Article profiles Cooking up Change Chicago student-chefs who spoke as part of a briefing on Capitol Hill. Cooking up Change Chicago’s oven “fried” chicken recipe.

Health In Mind offers blueprint for health and learning
5.10.12 | AFT
During the Health in Mind briefing, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten remarked on the need for healthy school environments.

Fruit, Fiber, and Recommendations for Healthier Schoolkids
5.10.12 | Education Week's K-12 Blog
When the Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health presented a set of recommendations to Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday, they may not have expected to hear a tale about dancing vegetables.

OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Food fight over Obama's burger habit, school bake sales in Mass.
5.9.12 | The Hill
Event listing announces Healthy Schools Campaign will co-host a briefing with the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming on efforts to serve chicken raised without antibiotics in the public school cafeterias in Chicago. Representatives Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) are the event's honorary hosts.

Education and Public Health Research and Advocacy Organizations Present Secretaries Duncan and Sebelius with Recommendations to Close the Achievement Gap by Addressing School Health
5.9.12 | MarketWatch
Press release announces Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health released actionable policy recommendations focused on supporting schools in addressing health and wellness in order to improve student learning and achievement. The announcement also appears in publications such as Sacramento Bee, and online at Tree Hugger and District Administration

HHS announces available funding for construction, renovation of school-based health centers
5.9.12 | Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced funding during Press release also appears in publications such as St. Louis American and online at The Hill Blog

Removing Health Barriers to Student Learning
5.9.12 | NEA Today
The article points out that educators recognize the connection between health and learning. During the Health in Mind briefing, the National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel called the policy recommendations “right on the money” and singled out the need for professional development.

Making Health a Part of the School Day
5.9.12 | Robert Wood’ Johnson Foundation’s blog, New Public Health
Blog post discusses Health in Mind, HSC and Trust for America’s Health’s initiative that focuses on policy recommendations for immediate, practical changes at the federal level to help close the achievement gap and create a healthy future for all children. In May, the groups presented actionable policy recommendations to the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. government urged to fight fat at school
5.9.12 | Reuters
Article looks at HSC and Trust for America’s Health’s initiative aimed at closing achievement gaps and health disparities. The timely policy recommendations were presented to Secretaries Arne Duncan and Kathleen Sebelius. Article also appears in publications such as Chicago Tribune, Columbus Dispatch and online at CNBC, MSNBC, and Huffington Post

Soap’s Contribution To Proper Hand Washing In Schools
4.27.12 | Contracting Profits
The article discusses the importance of soap in creating a clean school environment. Vice president of policy and communications Mark Bishop recommends green-certified soaps to reduce the impact on health and the environment.

Local Students To Compete In ‘Cooking Up Change 2012′
3.27.12 | KNX-TV CBS 2 (Los Angeles, CA)
Cooking up Change Santa Ana winners demonstrate how they prepared their winning meal. The student cehf trio will compete in the National competition in May.

Discovering the Leader Within Yourself
3.1.12 | School Nurse - Journal of the National Association of School Nurses (Volume 27 Number 2, March 2012 Issue)
Graduates of HSC’s School Nurse Leadership Training spotlight school nurse leadership.The article describes five principles of effective school nurse leadership to help school nurses discover the leaders within themselves.

Competition has Santa Ana students ‘Cooking Up Change'
3.13.12 | Orange County Register
Article spotlights winning Cooking up Change Santa Ana student chefs. "Food Network Star's" Chef Katy Clark served as a chef mentor to the team. The Valley High School culinary student trio will compete in the National contest in May.

Cooking Up Change, a Healthy Cooking Contest
2.8.12 | Press Telegram
Event listing includes details about Cooking up Change Santa Ana. On March 8, Kid Healthy and Northgate Gonzalez Markets will present the healthy cooking contest.

Columbia School District Wins 2011 Green Cleaning Award
2.7.12 | Market Watch
Columbia Public Schools (CPS) has been named the recipient of the 2011 Green Cleaning Award. Healthy Schools Campaign president and CEO Rochelle Davis and vice president of policy and communications Mark Bishop are mentioned as judges.

The Healthy Schools Campaign cooks up change
2.6.12 | W.K. Kellogg
Healthy Schools Campaign president and CEO discusses the Cooking up Change Chicago contest and partnering with advocates to move healthy school food forward. Rochelle Davis spotlights collaborative efforts to bring scratch-cooked chicken to Chicago Public Schools as well as the winning student chefs.

CVCA students chefs serve winning dish, headed to nationals
1.26.2012 | Chicago Citizen
The competition in the Cooking up Change contest was fierce, but the culinary team at Chicago Vocational Career Academy high school served up a local win and is now looking forward to shaking and baking their way to a national victory.

Students prepare healthy lunch
1.25.12 | Chicago Defender
Article spotlights winning Cooking up Change team as their meal is served across the city, highlighting that the team will compete in the Cooking up Change National competition in Washington D.C.

Vocational students to feed 20,000 CPS students
1.19.12 | WLS-TV (ABC 7)
Chicago Vocational Career Academy’s culinary students had their Cooking up Change meal served across the city. The students will go on to Washington D.C.

CPS student 'chefs' serve award-winning lunch
1.19.12 | Medill
Some 20,000 Chicago Public Schools high students ate a student-created healthy lunch. The chefs competed in Helathy Schools Campaign’s Cooking up Change cooking contest.

CPS developing recess guide
1.18.12 | Chicago Tribune
Article discusses the development of Chicago Public Schools’ recess guide to assist schools with implementation. Healthy Schools Campaign collaborated on this resource.

UMKC, Lee’s Summit get awards for ‘green’ cleaning
1.17.12 | Kansas City Star
Two Kansas City area institutions were recognized for their green cleaning efforts, siting continued efforts to improve their green cleaning program. Healthy Schools Campaign is recognized as a sponsor for the Green Cleaning Award.

Schools Go Green – and Save Green – With Help From Private, Foundation And Nonprofit Sectors
1.6.12 | School Buyers Online
Article highlights efforts to support sustainability in schools. Healthy Schools Campaign is part of the effort to promote healthy eating in schools.

Schools on the Line
1.5.12 | WBEZ 91.5
Jean-Claude Brizard discusses health and wellness programs during his weekly call-in show. The CPS head references Healthy Schools Campaign as a partner in moving school menus and nutrition education forward. Brizard also highlights the Go for the Gold campaign for its school wellness initiative.

Cooking up Change
12.26.11 | True Star Magazine
Local teen magazine highlights Cooking up Change as an effort to change school food. Rochelle Davis, the winning culinary students, and their chef mentor are featured as part of the spotlight.

School Meals Matter
12.20.11 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Louise Esaian, head of school nutrition for Chicago Public Schools, discusses ways the district makes healthy school food a priority. The director recognizes Healthy Schools Campaign’s work with CPS to promote and support the efforts. The piece is included as part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s annual report.

Congress Looking to Declare Pizza a Vegetable for School Lunches
11.18.11 | WIRED
Blog post responds to legislative actions that would roll back health-promoting updates to national school food nutrition standards. The blogger quotes HSC vice president of policy and communications Mark Bishop's blog post on the matter.

Cooking up Change (Part Two)
11.17.11 | Fed Up With Lunch
Mrs. Q continues her spotlight on Cooking up Change, highlighting student chefs and their meals.

Chicago Teens Win Cooking up Change Prelim
11.14.11 | Cooking Teens
Announcement of Chicago Vocational Career Academy's victory at Cooking up Change Chicago. The students chefs will move on to the national competition in Washington D.C.

Cookjng up Change (Part Three)
11.17.11 | Fed Up With Lunch
Blogger Mrs. Q completes her chronicles from Cooking up Change, highlighting student chefs and their meals.

Roberto Clemente placed second Cooking Up Change contest
11.7.11 | Our Urban Times
Student chefs from Roberto Clemente are highlighted for their second place win in the Cooking up Change competition. Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean Claude Brizard is quoted.

Cooking up Change (Part 1)
11.4.11 | Fed Up With Lunch
This preview post offers a spotlight on Cooking up Change.

Chef Matt Eversman of OON Chicago
11.3.11 | WLS-TV (ABC 7)
Chef Matt Eversman provides a cooking demonstration and discusses his participation as a chef mentor in Cooking up Change. Eversman’s student chef team from Chicago Vocational Career Academy went on to win the competition.

Are you fed up with lunch?
11.1.11 | Vocalo
Cooking up Change Chicago 2010 winners Lidia Sanchez and Gerardo Garcia shared their competition experience and efforts to improve school food during an interview with Fed up With Lunch blogger Sarah Wu.

Cooking Up Change: Students Transforming the Future of School Food
11.1.11 | Now You Know
Healthy Schools Campaign's Cooking up Change flagship contest and benefit is featured as a unique fundraiser that allows supporters to engage with culinary students and learn about local and national efforts to improve school food.

Healthier chicken served in Chicago schools
11.1.11 | WLS-TV ABC7
This segment features Chicago Public Schools’ move to serve freshly-baked chicken raised without antibiotics from Miller Amish Country Poultry as part of its school lunch program.

Big Move: Chicago Schools To Buy Antibiotic-Free Chicken
11.1.11 | WIRED
The announcement of antibiotic-free chicken in Chicago Public School lunch menus is featured as a major step in protecting health and improving childhood nutrition. Healthy Schools Campaign is highlighted as a partner in this effort.

Chicago public schools to serve antibiotic-free chickens
11.1.11 | The Hill Blog
The third-largest school district in the country on Tuesday began serving chickens raised without antibiotics, a major win for public health advocates who have been warning about the rising threat of antibiotic resistance. Chicago Public Schools announced that it will be serving 1.2 million pounds of antibiotic-free chicken from Amish farms — about a quarter of the total it serves every year — to more than 300,000 school children...

Amish-raised chicken on CPS lunch menu
11.1.11 | Chicago Tribune
This story spotlights the “unprecedented” move by Chicago Public Schools to purchase 1.2 million pounds of unprocessed chicken raised without antibiotics on Amish farms in Indiana and bake the chicken for school lunches. The story also highlights the work of partners to support this effort.

Chicago students get a new taste, scent of chicken
11.1.11 | Medill Reports
This article quotes HSC President and CEO Rochelle Davis on the Chicago Public Schools decision to purchase fresh chicken raised without the use of antibiotics to bake and serve for lunch in schools.

Chicago Public Schools Largest District to Serve Chicken Raised without Antibiotics
11.1.11 | Sacramento Bee
This story shows newswire coverage of the announcement that Chicago Public Schools is beginning to serve freshly-baked chicken raised on Amish farms without the use of antibiotics. The article notes Healthy Schools Campaign’s work with Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality to improve menu offerings in Chicago schools. World News and The Business Journal network also featured coverage.

Mark your calendars: School lunches on notice and chili for arts' sake
11.1.11 | Chicago Now
HSC’s flagship Cooking up Change Chicago event is featured as a unique benefit that challenges teams of high school student chefs to create a healthy school meal.

Michelle Obama meets Peterson culinary students, winners of Cooking Up Change
10.31.11 | Examiner
This article spotlights 2011 Cooking up Change national winners Alexus Baldwin, Leoniqua Jackson and Denver Singletary. The trio recently met First Lady Michelle Obama, who commended the team for their efforts to promote healthy eating. This story was re-posted on Food Service Interactive and the Examiner Chicago network.

Fed Up with Lunch
10.30.11 | WGN-AM 720 Extension 720
Healthy Schools Campaign president and CEO Rochelle Davis took part in a panel discussion on school lunch and childhood obesity with Fed Up with Lunch blogger Sarah Wu and Dr. Cathy Joyce. Davis also discussed Cooking up Change as an opportunity to showcase student efforts to move school food forward.

Campana para almuerzo saludables
10.27.11 | Reclama
De acuerdo a CDC.gov (Centros para el Control y Prevencion de Enfermedades ) “Todos los dias, casi 133,000 escuelas del pais tienen la oportunidad de ensenar a 55 millones de alumnus sobre alaud y destrezas para practicar habitios saludables.

First Lady recognizes local achievers
10.27.11 | Florida Times Union
This article discusses First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit to Jacksonville during which she met with and congratulated the winning student team from the Cooking up Change national healthy cooking contest, the student chefs of Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology. WOKV-TV and WJXT-TV also covered the First Lady’s visit with the Cooking up Change team.

Healthy Chicago Schools Hailed
10.26.11 | Chicago Tribune
This article recognizes Chicago Public Schools recently honored at the White House for meeting the HealthierUS School Challenge. The schools met the challenge through Go for the Gold, HSC's partnership with Chicago Public Schools to support schools in meeting these high standards for food, fitness and nutrition education.

Michelle Obama To Visit Jax Thursday
10.25.11 | WJXT-TV (Jacksonville)
This spotlight reports that the winning student team from the Cooking up Change national healthy cooking contest will meet First Lady Michelle Obama during a stop in Florida. The First Lady will congratulate the students on their efforts to promote healthier food and lifestyle choices.

Students Compete to Design Better Lunches
10.21.11 | U.S. News & World Report
The national weekly spotlights Cooking up Change, Healthy Schools Campaign’s healthy cooking contest as an opportunity for students like returning student chef Dora Marron to showcase their talent. Healthy Schools Campaign president and CEO Rochelle Davis is also featured. This article was also featured on Yahoo! News.

Chicago organizations join First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign
9.16.11 | Extra News
1WORLD Sports has partnered with the President’s Challenge program as well as Chicago Public Schools, Healthy Schools Campaign, the Chicago Park District, and IAPHERD to help encourage children and families to be physically active and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The partners will engage 100 CPS schools and 10,000 participants in this effort to fight and prevent childhood obesity among Chicago’s youth.

Chicago schools take presidential fitness challenge
9.12.11 | WLS-TV
Healthy Schools Campaign teamed up with 1WORLD Sports, Aetna, and Chicago Public Schools to kick-off the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award Challenge, a program that promotes daily activity in an effort to combat childhood obesity, at Walsh Elementary School. The event featured Chicago Fire president Julian Posada.

Parents, clergy rally for longer school day
8.24.11 | WLS-TV
Healthy Schools Campaign vice president of urban affairs Guillermo Gomez weighs in on the Chicago Public Schools announcement to lengthen the school day. Gomez is part of an advisory committee for the school district.

CPS starts work on longer school day, CTU head declines to serve on committee
8.23.11 | Chicago Tribune
Chicago Public Schools announced plans to extend the school day. HSC vice president of urban affairs Guillermo Gomez was invited to join an advisory committee to make recommendations for the extended schedule.

Program Wants to Get CPS Students 'Fit to Learn'
8.2.11 | WGN-TV
Healthy Schools Campaign hosts Fit to Learn, a professional training program that equips educators with tools to cultivate a culture of health and wellness in the classroom. Namaste Charter School, a Go for the Gold participating school is featured.

Rochelle Davis: Children's Health Champion
8.1.11 | Everyday Health
Healthy Schools Campaign president and CEO Rochelle Davis chats with Everyday Health about her determination to infuse health and wellness into the public school system. Davis shares her health story and vision for the organization.

Promoting healthy eating from the ground up in Little Village’s Hispanic community
7.7.11 | Extra News
Residents of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood take a proactive approach to healthy food choices for their families and nutrition education in the local schools. Jovita Flores, campaign manager for Parents United for Healthy Schools provides her own techniques for cooking with a healthy spin.

Low Mileage Kitchen: Change up kids’ food routines
6.21.11 | Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago high school student chefs will lead a cooking demonstration, presenting their Cooking up Change dish at Chicago's annual Taste of Chicago summer festival. The aspiring chefs participated in HSC's healthy cooking contest and traveled to D.C.

Chicago Celebrates "Go for the Gold" in Food and Fitness
6.21.11 | USDA
Nineteen Chicago Public Schools were honored at the Go for the Gold celebration for meeting standards set by the HealthierUS School Challenge, the program promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative.

Cooking up Change Visits the Nation's Capitol
6.7.11 | Let's Move
National Co-chair for Cooking up Change Karen Duncan chronicles her experience at the healthy cooking contest national finals in Washington D.C., where six teams of high school student chefs competed to create healthy, affordable school lunches.

Students Share Tasty, Winning School Meal Recipes
5.27.11 | Food Safety News
Six teams of high school students from across the country competed at HSC’s annual Cooking up Change contest in Washington D.C. to create healthy, affordable and delicious school lunches.

Exotic and Healthy School Lunch Recipe Wins National Contest
5.27.11 | Florida Times-Union
The Jacksonvile team received top honors at Healthy Schools Campaign's Cooking up Change national finals and impressed judges with their winning meal.

CPS Backs Recess
5.23.11 | WBEZ 91.5
Healthy School Campaign vice president of urban affairs Guillermo Gomez discusses the importance of recess in the context of public dialogue around Chicago Public Schools proposed guidelines to incorporate physical activity and lengthen the school day.

Cumbre Padres Unidos para Escuelas Saludables
5.20.11 | Nuevo Siglo Newpaper
Mantener a los niños saludables y participar para que su nivel académico sea el adecuado es labor de los padres de familia, es parte de lo que se resaltó en la Quinta Cumbre de Padres Unidos Para Escuelas Saludables que se llevo a cabo por parte de la Campaña de Escuelas Saludables.

School Menu Changes Displease Many
5.19.11 | Southest Missourian
Healthy changes to school lunch menus have been met with mixed reviews from students, parents and the food industry. HSC president & CEO Rochelle Davis discusses the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and what it means for public schools.

Through Their Eyes
5.5.11 | Huffington Post
Article spotlighting the importance of an engaged safe, healthy school environment on student success. Reporter Ed Schmidt announces Through Your Lens exhibit on Capitol Hill and provides background about the photo and essay contest.

Budget ax threatens school nurses
4.25.11 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Article discussing State Sen. Jeffrey Piccola’s Senate Bill 802 that would allow registered nurses to work in schools. Healthy Schools Campaign board member Martha Bergren is quoted on the stability of school nurses.

Chef Lovely Helps Chicago Students Win the Future
4.15.2011 | USDA Blog
Chicago is fortunate to have a bevy of talented chefs and also to be the hometown for the Healthy Schools Campaign, a national organization that advocates for policies and practices that allow students, teachers and staff to learn and work in a healthy school environment. These two groups have joined forces a number of times in the past, but no previous effort matches the Chefs Move to Schools event that occurred on a sunny spring day in April. . .

To boost student learning, improve student health, says panel
4.6.2011 | Catalyst Chicago
A panel of local and national researchers and educators, including Interim Schools CEO Terry Mazany, convened Wednesday to discuss the health disparities that affect poor and minority students and the impact of those disparities on educational achievement. . . The forum was organized by the non-profit Healthy Schools Campaign as part of a week-long series of events to focus attention on programs that support student wellness and achievement.

Nat’l Minority Health Month Kicks Off in Chicago with Chefs in Classrooms
4.5.2011 | Hispanically Speaking News
As part of “Heroes for Healthy Schools Week” and National Minority Health Month, the Healthy Schools Campaign and the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will host Chef in the Classroom 2011 on Tuesday, April 5. . . .

Healthy, yet tasty, school lunches wow judges at Cooking up Change contest in Jacksonville
3.24.2011 | The Florida Times-Union
The plastic trays presented to judges were the same ones used daily for regular school lunches across Duval County. But the goodies in each were more cafe than cafeteria at Wednesday's Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest. The contest started years ago in Chicago, but expanded this year to challenge student chefs in Denver, St. Louis, Winston-Salem and Jacksonville to create healthy alternatives to the usual school lunch. . .

Healthy Schools Campaign April 5
3.21.2011 | Epicurious
First Lady Michelle Obama has issued a "Call to Action" to Chicagoland chefs on April 5. The non-profit Healthy Schools Campaign has asked chefs to go into partnering schools and connect with grade-school age students about eating well.Each time I have an opportunity to connect with students, I want to share real information that is relevant in the food world right now. To me, April is all about ushering in spring. . .

Students Participate in Healthy School Meals Contest
3.4.2011 | Fox News 8 Winston-Salem
Students in Winston-Salem took on the challenge of making easy, healthy meals Friday. They faced off in the "Cooking Up Change" contest, which requires making meals that meet nutrition standards, include one local ingredient and can be prepared in six steps or fewer. The idea of the contest is to revolutionize the nationwide school lunch system with healthier yet cost-effective options. . .

Guillermo Gómez, de la política a la salud de los niños
2.18.2011 | Nuevo Siglo
This profile spotlights Guillermo Gómez, HSC Vice President of Urban Affairs, and his work for school wellness in Chicago.

USDA cuts fat out of school lunches
2.4.2011 | Glen Ellyn News / Winfield Press
HSC President & CEO Rochelle Davis is quoted in this story about what proposed national nutrition standards will mean for schools.

Across the USA News from Every State
1.25.2011 | USA Today
Student winners of a 2010 cooking competition served their Caribbean-inspired winning meals to more than 20,000 fellow students. Culinary students in Chicago Public Schools competed in the fourth annual Cooking up Change contest in November. . .

USDA official visits Chicago, talks about food deserts
1.25.2011 | WBEZ
This story features USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Janey Thornton, who visited Chicago to speak at HSC's event congratulating the students of Richards Career Academy who won first place in the Cooking up Change Healthy Cooking Contest.

Richards chefs dish about winning cooking contest
1.25.2011 | The Mash
This series of videos tells the story of the student chefs of Richards Career Academy and their journey creating the winning meal in HSC's Cooking up Change Healthy Cooking Contest, which was served Jan. 24 to their peers in high schools across Chicago.

Chicago high school student chef winners serve up classmates
1.24.2011 | AP
This AP brief spotlights the healthy school lunch created by students from Richards Career Academy for HSC's Cooking up Change Healthy Cooking Contest. It appeared in outlets across the U.S., including Fox News 59 Indianapolis, The Chicago Defender and The Stamford Advocate.

Richards Career Academy chefs
1.24.2011 | Univision
Student chefs Ruby Gutierrez, Lidia Sanchez and Claudia Ramirez talk about winning the Healthy Schools Campaign's fourth annual Cooking up Change contest. . .

CPS students win student chef contest
1.24.2011 | WGN-TV
This video spotlights the students chefs of Richards Career Academy who won first place in HSC's Cooking up Change Healthy Cooking Contest. The video includes footage of HSC's event at the students' school on the day their meal was served in high schools across Chicago.

Richards' student chefs win citywide cook-off
1.24.2011 | ABC 7 Chicago
On the menu for Chicago Public Schools: Afro-Caribe Plancha, Caribbean Crunch Salad and Soup of Sunshine. Those are the winning recipes from a citywide contest where culinary students created healthy school lunches. They were dished out Monday and are now part of the Chicago Public Schools menu for the high schools. Richards Career Academy students won first place in the annual Cooking Up Change contest, which is sponsored by nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign."The students are challenged to create a school meal-- that means high nutritional standards and works within the budgetary constraints and, most importantly, that their peers will eat it," said Rochelle Davis, Healthy Schools Campaign. It's a tall order for the students- healthy, cheap and tasty. . .

High School Students’ Meal To Be Served Systemwide
1.24.2011 | WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago
A big day is in store for some Chicago public high school students who are budding chefs. . . a meal they planned will be served systemwide on Monday. Student chefs from Richards Career Academy High School won the “Cooking up Change” healthy lunch contest. . .

Enseñan a comer saludable en las Escuelas de Chicago
12.12.2010 | La Raza
El alto índice de obesidad en los estudiantes de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago ha levantando el tapete para que expertos en el arte culinario visiten los centros educativos, con el único propósito de educar a la niñez en cuánto a llevar una alimentación saludable.

USDA Supports Principals and Parents at Chicago Breakfast
12.6.2010 | USDA Blog
A recent breakfast event to discuss ways to make schools and school meals healthier was hosted by Healthy Schools Campaign and attracted over 40 principals and around 200 parents! . . . USDA’s Audrey Rowe discussed the First Lady’s Let’s Move! effort with an excited group of community members—some of whom represent schools that have already made healthy changes. In fact, fifteen school principals submitted their applications for USDA’s Healthier US Challenge gold award to Audrey and other officials. . .

Cooking up Change Heats Up a Chilly November Night in Chicago
11.9.2010 | USDA Blog
Healthy Schools Campaign’s Cooking up Change event—a benefit and competition between students to create healthy and tasty school meals—was attended by over 600 enthusiastic high schoolers, community leaders, local government leaders and Chicagoans with an interest in improving school meals. While the November 4 weather was decidedly cool and rainy, the Cooking Up Change’s venue, a West Side former warehouse, was hot!

CPS students compete in healthy cooking contest
11.4.2010 | AP
Move over, "Iron Chef:" Chicago high school students are taking over the kitchen. Chicago Public Schools culinary students will compete Thursday in the fourth annual Cooking up Change contest. The students are competing for the chance to have their dishes served in lunchrooms across the country's third-largest school district.

CPS Cooks Up Change in Cafeterias
11.4.2010 | NBC Chicago
Move over sloppy joes and corn dogs. Here's some new food for thought in Chicago Public High Schools. The Healthy Schools Campaign is holding their annual Cooking up Change contest for culinary arts students from Chicago's public high schools. The organization aims to promote healthier eating among students across the country. . .

Chicago: Where Chefs Move to Schools Works!
10.13.2010 | Let's Move blog
Chicago has long been known as the City that Works. And a recent event related to the First Lady’s Chefs Move to Schools initiative proved that the city still lives up to its name. On October 4th, Healthy Schools Campaign and Chicago Public Schools held their first Chef in the Classroom Day in which nearly 70 chefs visited schools across the Second City to connect with students and share lessons about healthy eating. . .

At White House's behest, chefs move to schools
10.12.2010 | The Washington Post
This story spotlights Chef in the Classroom Day and other responses of chefs around the country to First Lady Michelle Obama's call to action. Jane Black writes of this Chicago initiative: "The day was the first coordinated push of Chefs Move to Schools, the White House initiative that aims to create a volunteer chef corps to educate kids about food and nutrition."

My School Looks Like This
10.8.2010 | Slate
This story spotlights the Through Your Lens photo contest that HSC hosts with partners Critical Exposure and the 21st Century School Fund: "The "Through Your Lens" exhibit features an awful lot of peeling paint and broken windows—the kind of environment you wouldn't want your kid in for an hour, much less a childhood. But the photographers also highlight examples of spaces that work, flashes of color and sunlight and order in otherwise chaotic surroundings." The story includes a photo gallery with highlights from the contest.

Program brings 60 chefs to Chicago classrooms
10.4.2010 | AP
Students in more than 60 Chicago classrooms will be getting a lesson in nutrition from a team of professional chefs. The Chef in the Classroom program is being held Monday across the Chicago Public Schools system. Chefs will talk about nutrition and the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. . . The Healthy Schools Campaign, an independent nonprofit organization, is a partner with CPS in the Chef in the Schools program.

Chefs come to Chicago classrooms
10.4.2010 | Chicago Defender
This story spotlights the Chef in the Classroom initiative with a focus on how First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative will have an impact and on the high rates of obesity that Chicago children face.

Chicago chefs spice up schools' new push for healthy eating
10.4.2010 | Chicago Tribune
This story spotlights the Chef in the Classroom program that brought 67 Chicago-area chefs to local schools to provide healthy eating lessons. The initiative compelements healthy new school food menus that CPS debuted this year and supports the districts' efforts to meet the HealthierUS School Challenge, the program that First Lady Michelle Obama is urging schools to achieve.

Beyond Sports: Cooking up Change
9.19.2010 | ESPN Radio 1000: Beyond Sports
HSC founding executive director Rochelle Davis is interviewed in this Beyond Sports segment that focuses on the Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest and student engagement in the effort to transform school food.

New Nutritional Guidelines For CPS School Lunches
9.7.2010 | CBS-2 Chicago
HSC's Mark Bishop is quoted in this back-to-school story on school food. "There has been a great awareness of the need to improve nutrition; the need to address a crisis of obesity in our society, and schools are really a natural place to make a lot of changes," Bishop said. "Kids learn, kids develop habits, and there is a lot of peer pressure, so getting healthier food in schools can make a difference in a lot of kids' lives."

Lunch lessons: Chefs in White House adopt-a-school program have work cut out for them
8.25.2010 | Chicago Sun-Times
This article discusses the Chefs Move to Schools program of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative and details the Chef in the Classroom program that HSC and Chicago Public Schools are presenting. The program connects chefs with local schools to provide nutrition education.

Schools are making lunches healthier
8.23.2010 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
HSC deputy director Mark Bishop is quoted in this article about positive changes to school food across the U.S. and the challenges schools face in serving healthy meals.

CPS unveils push for healthier school meals
8.17.2010 | The Chicago Tribune
This story covers the launch, at a luncheon hosted by HSC, of the Go for the Gold campaign to support Chicago Public Schools in meeting the high standards for school food, nutrition education and physical activity set by the HealthierUS School Challenge.

School Lunch Doc Offers Lesson in History and Food Politics
7.16.2010 | Gapers Block
Filmmakers Ernie Park and Michael Graziano brought their documentary, Lunch Line, to Chicago this week. The film follows six high-school students from Tilden Career Community Academy who won the Cooking Up Change challenge in 2009, and then went on to take the affordable and healthy school lunch they created to Washington, D.C.

School Lunch Doc Offers Lesson in History and Food Politics
7.16.2010 | WBEZ
This story includes an interview with filmmaker and Michael Graziano discussing the documentary Lunch Line, which features the student chefs of HSC's Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest.

Baboquivari High School students use native foods to win national award
6.8.2010 | CBS-13 (KOLD-News)
The Tohono O'odham people have the highest rate of diabetes among Native American tribes, according to the USDA. Diabetes impacts about half of Tohono O'odham adults, but only four to six percent of all Americans. However, when faced with the challenge of creating a healthy, tasty school lunch, it was Tohono O'odham students from Baboquivari High School that won the national "Cooking Up Change" contest by using native foods.

Blogging your organization’s message
6.1.2010 | The Non-Profit Times
This article spotlights HSC's online communication strategy and outreach through blogging and social media.

Organic Life sees opportunity in freshening up school lunch menus
5.24.2010 | Crain's Chicago Business
HSC's founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this article on private sector efforts to provide healthy school food.

Chicago students learn how to eat healthier, starting in own classrooms
5.19.2010 | Chicago Sun-Times
HSC's founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this article on changes to provide healthier school food across Chicago.

Cooking with Kids: Richards Career Academy
5.12.2010 | ABC-7 Chicago
The student chefs of Richards Career Academy High School, who placed second in HSC's 2009 Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest, performed a cooking demonstration on the ABC-7 Chicago morning show. The team also placed first in the 2008 healthy cooking contest and traveled to Washington, DC to prepare their healthy meal with White House assistant chef Sam Kass at a briefing on the future of school food.

Cooking with Kids: Chicago Vocational Career Academy
5.11.2010 | ABC-7 Chicago
The student chefs of Chicago Vocational Career Academy, who placed third in HSC's 2009 Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest, performed a cooking demonstration on the ABC-7 Chicago morning show. Team members whipped up oven-roasted tilapia and vegetables with lemon-herb butter and showed off the Cavalier Cooler lemonade they created in a culinary class.

Cooking with Kids: Tilden Career Academy
5.10.2010 | ABC-7 Chicago
The student chefs of Tilden Career Academy High School -- first place winners of HSC's 2009 Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest -- performed a cooking demonstration on the ABC-7 Chicago morning show. The students showed off their skills in preparing healthy chicken jambalaya and cucumber salad, the meal that wowed judges and guests at Cooking up Change.

CPS pledges to provide healthier cafeteria food
4.7.2010 | Catalyst Chicago
This article highlights new nutrition standards for food in Chicago Public Schools and healthy changes throughout the district. HSC founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted, and parents involved in HSC's Parents United for Healthy Schools coalition are featured.

Chicago schools to improve nutrition
4.7.2010 | WGN
HSC founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this video on the unveiling of new standards for healthy school food in Chicago Public Schools.

A TV Show and Congress Tackle School Lunches
3.29.2010 | The New York Times
HSC's founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this piece on the Child Nutrition Act in the context of increased attention on the need for healthy school food. “Look at the agony our country is going through over health care and the struggle to handle a sick nation,” she said. “We just have to connect the dots and get people eating right and get people moving. Healthy school food is a logical part of that.”

Food Fight: High School Lunches
3.24.2010 | ABC World News with Diane Sawyer
HSC's founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this story about students speaking up for healthier school food. In the story, she points out national efforts to reform nutrition standards and increase funding for healthier school food.

CPS: Healthy food in, junk food out of cafeterias
3.24.2010 | WGN-TV
HSC's deputy director Mark Bishop is quoted in this story on efforts to improve school food and the need to provide increased funding so that schools are not forced to choose between serving healthy food for funding education initiatives.

Chicago school officials plan to ditch doughnuts, Pop-Tarts
3.24.2010 | Chicago Tribune
HSC's founding executive director Rochelle Davis is quoted in this story about positive changes to the food served in Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago students take healthy lunches to Capitol Hill
3.17.2010 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation News
Lots of young people visit Washington, D.C., to learn about history. Five students from Chicago recently went there to change it. Together, Lashonda Livingston, Aljibri Reed, Henry Walton, Cari Smith and Jakaia Franklin delivered a message to Congress: Kids across the country are counting on you to help improve the quality of food kids eat at school. . .

The Healthy Lunch Bunch
3.12.2010 | Oprah.com
On March 2, 2010, five students from Tilden Career Community Academy High School in Chicago visited the U.S. Capitol. But they didn't come empty-handed. The students brought along a spread of chicken-vegetable jambalaya, jalapeño cornbread and cucumber salad. The recipes, which they had developed in their school's culinary program, won the 2009 Cooking Up Change competition. Cooking Up Change is an annual contest sponsored by the Healthy Schools Campaign that challenges students in Chicago Public Schools to develop a healthy lunch menu.

Chicken-Vegetable Jambalaya
3.12.2010 | Oprah.com
This recipe was part of the healthy school lunch menu that won HSC's 2009 Cooking Up Change healthy cooking contest.

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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