Policy Brief Topic

After consideration over the past couple of days, I have decided to narrow the focus for my policy brief to wellness programs in schools, with a particular emphasis on nutrition.  Historically, this topic has political connections as, for example, the government interjected at the state and national levels to see to it that students where receiving adequate nutrition throughout their school day and would supplement lunches (and breakfasts where available) with free and reduced meals.

I will also seek to reveal the gaps in the education process of wellness programs within school systems as the school systems.  In my own school community, there are several different departments that teach nutritional wellness, including Family-Consumer Science, Health, Physical Education, and the Cafeteria itself has a campaign for wellness...but I am curious what the crossover is.  How often do these departments talk with each other and do their standards and objectives about nutritional wellness align? Are we as a school community, who is governed ultimately by the state and national Board of Education sending mixed messages to America's youth about nutritional wellness? If so, what policies would ameliorate this?