On September 11 of this year, David Hilmy – a teacher at Walker-Jones Education Campus and a trained biologist – received an email from a program manager in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development informing him of their “anticipated” intent to take the school’s farm for a mixed-use housing development.

A couple weeks after a study graded D.C. Public Schools’ school breakfast program as the best in the country, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) dropped in on a downtown elementary school during the lunch hour to inspect the meals being served. The school breakfast study cited in particular the 2010 Healthy Schools Act, which Cheh shepherded.