school food policy resources 
- Changing the Scene: Improving the School Nutrition Environment: A Guide to Local Action
USDA publication intended to help examine a school’s nutrition environment and to design and put into action a plan for improvement, including marketing. (PDF: 48 pages) - Eight Component Model for Coordinated School Health Program
This Centers for Disease Control schema elevates nutrition/health education to equal status with other parts of the curriculum. (PDF: 8 pages) - Establishing A Whole School Food Policy
This section of the British Nutrition Foundation’s website guides users through the process of writing and implementing a school food policy. Other pages of the BNF site offer downloadables, information for teachers and parents, and links to other helpful information. - Healthy School Food Policies: A Checklist (PDF)
This working paper collects many of the innovative policies that have been adopted or proposed to improve school food, providing a checklist of around 50 such policies. - A Model School Food Policy: A Practical Guide (Grab 5)
This booklet is intended to outline the advantages to a school of adopting a food policy and to provide practical guidance on how to go about this. - School Foods Tool Kit: A Guide to Improving School Food and Beverages
The Center for Science in the Public Interest designed this tool kit to help parents, teachers, and others interested in improving the nutritional quality of food and beverages served to children in school. (Three PDFs: Part I: 35 pages, Part II: 28 pages, Part III: 23 pages) - School Health Policies and Programs Study
U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services/CDC/Division of Adolescent and School Health. School Health Policies and Programs Study. Journal of School Health 71 (7) (2001). This national survey periodically is conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. It includes fact sheets, state report cards, state-level summaries and more. - Soft Drinks in Schools
This American Academy of Pediatrics’ policy statement warns pediatricians and other health care professionals, parents, superintendents, and school board members about nutritional concerns regarding soft drink consumption in schools. - Successful Students Through Healthy Food and Fitness Policies
Provides links to policy information and news, as well as the downloadable "Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide.