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Can Boston Solve School Lunch?

What does it take to transform cafeteria options in city schools for the better?
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For the last decade or so, a social and political war has been underway, and in an unlikely setting: the school cafeteria. With the healthy foods movement came activist chefs like Jamie Oliver traversing the country transforming what lunch rooms serve, parents demanding better for their school-age children, and backlash from some claiming kids won’t eat less-salty, less-fatty school lunches.

But cutting through all the noise, what does it really take to turn around a city’s school meal program?