http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-milk-20110605,0,2287697.story
Citing health issues such as childhood obesity and diabetes, the school district’s new superintendent plans to recommend eliminating the sugary drink.
An item that’s on millions of kids’ meal trays once or twice a day has become the subject of a food fight in school districts around the country, called everything from part of a healthy diet to “soda in drag.” How could a half-pint carton of chocolate milk be so complicated?
The new superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, John Deasy, said he will recommend that the school board eliminate chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk in its next dairy contract for the 650,000 meals it serves daily. The current contract expires June 30.