The Chicago Public Schools district and its meals provider,Chartwells-Thompson,cooked up this bizzaro, anti-produce rule.Under their regulation,student-grown produce needs to meet certain specifications in order to be served in school cafeterias.For one,student farmers couldn't apply any pesticides or insecticides on their crops,and they could only use commercially prepared, organic compost and fertilizer to supply veggies |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)