DALLAS – Dallas ISD held an awards ceremony at Sam Tasby Middle School to honor the 65 schools to receive the 2013 HealthierUS School Challenge Award. The HUSSC award, sponsored by USDA Food and Child Nutrition Service (FNS), is a voluntary national certification initiative for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program.
The ceremony was hosted by School Zone Dallas student Kendell Long and included speakers Bill Ludwig, Regional Administrator-USDA Food Nutrition Services Southwest Region; Dallas ISD Executive Director of Food and Child Nutrition Services Dora Rivas; Jeannine Rios- Healthy School Program Manager; Barbara Johnson Director of Dallas ISD Health and Physical Education Department; and fitness and health expert Larry North. In addition, each school sent a representative to receive their award. The Sam Tasby Leadership Cadet Corps drill team performed.
Thirty-four elementary and 31 middle schools received awards. To qualify, Dallas ISD schools worked hard to make changes to their school environment in order to (1) improve the quality of food served, (2) provide students with nutrition education, and (3) provide students with physical education and opportunities for physical activity.
The schools included:
Gold Level
Alex Sanger Elementary School Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School
Arcadia Park Elementary School Maple Lawn Elementary School
Ascher Silberstein Elementary School Mark Twain Elementary School
Clinton P. Russell Elementary School Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School
Ebby Halliday Elementary School Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School
Edna Rowe Elementary School Mt. Auburn Elementary School
Edward Titche Elementary School Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School
Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary School Onesimo Hernandez Elementary School
Harrell Budd Elementary School Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School
Herbert Marcus Elementary School Preston Hollow Elementary School
Highland Meadows Elementary School San Jacinto Elementary School
Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary School Stephen C. Foster Elementary School
James S. Hogg Elementary School Sudie L. Williams Elementary School
John Quincy Adams Elementary School T.G. Terry Elementary School
L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary School Thomas Tolbert Elementary School
Urban Park Elementary School
Silver Level
Everette L. DeGolyer Elementary School J.N. Ervin Elementary School
Bronze Level
Alex W. Spence Middle School Kennedy-Curry Middle School
Benjamin Franklin Middle School Oliver W. Holmes Middle School
Billy E. Dade Middle School Pearl C. Anderson Middle School
Boude Storey Middle School Raul Quintanilla Sr. Middle School
Dallas Environmental Science Academy Robert T. Hill Middle School
E.B. Comstock Middle School Sarah Zumwalt Middle School
E.D. Walker Middle School Sam Tasby Middle School
Edward H. Cary Middle School Seagoville Middle School
Francisco “Pancho” Medrano Middle School T.W. Browne Middle School
Fred Florence Middle School Thomas A. Edison Middle School
Hector Garcia Middle School Thomas C. Marsh Middle School
Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School Thomas J. Rusk Middle School
Henry W. Longfellow Middle School W.E. Greiner Middle School
John B. Hood Middle School W.H. Atwell Middle School
J.L. Long Middle School W.H. Gaston Middle School
L.V. Stockard Middle School