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Jan 15, 2013
D.C. Public Schools Fires Director of Food Services Amid Fight Over How Student Meals Are Served
Jeff Mills, the man charged with serving all the meals to D.C. public schools students, was fired yesterday, DCist has confirmed.
Here’s a sweet series—yesterday at lunch, almost every D.C. public school celebrated Strawberries and Salad Greens Day to kick off the District’s new efforts to include more fresh, local food in school cafeteria menus. DCPS’s goal is that next school year 20 percent of the food served will be local. “We are hoping to become the model for all urban food programs,” says recently-installed DCPS Food Services Director Jeff Mills. “This puts us on the…