The Charge:

Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 requires that every school district participating in the National School Lunch Program adopt local school wellness policies that address healthy eating and physical activity by the first day of the school year in 2006.

School districts must set goals for:

• Nutrition education
• Physical activity
• Other school-based activities that promote student wellness
• Establish nutrition standards for all foods available on the school campus
• Encourage the consumption of a variety of healthy foods through new initiatives to creatively market healthful foods
• Improve student nutrition behaviors through the promotion of student health and reduction of obesity
• Reinforce the regulations/guidance issued in the School Lunch Act
• Measure the implementation of the wellness policy
• Involve a broad group of individuals in the development of the program

The committee comprising of physical education and health teachers from elementary, junior high and high school, administrators, parents,  and community partners will help in the development and implementation of the program in Sylvania and to guide policies to help direct curriculum in health and physical education, lunch programs and overall health directives.