The School Nutrition Association has asked national legislators to revise the new meal patterns and the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.

More than 800 members of the national organization, including Sabrina Jewell, child nutrition director for Henderson County Schools, met with lawmakers in Washington D.C. from March 2-6.

Jewell is slated to talk about the trip during the Henderson County Board of Education meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday.

Our goal was simple, Jewell wrote in a report viewable on the school districts website. We are not asking for money or sweeping reforms.

Instead, the School Nutrition Association addressed four topics about the school nutrition laws that began to take effect last July. The four topics are:

The group asked that the temporary leniency of the weekly limits of grains and proteins become permanent.

The group asked that the breakfast meal pattern be put on hold for one year to allow nutrition departments time to finish addressing lunch. The breakfast meal pattern is scheduled to begin July 1.

The group asked that the paid lunch equity, section 205 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, be amended so that districts that operate efficiently and in the black do not have to raise meal prices to satisfy a national norm, but rather respond to the local economy.

The group asked that a national policy on unpaid meal charges be established.

Other topics set to be discussed at Monday nights board meeting include:

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