SCOPE OF WORK

1. Develop recommendations for nutritional standards and their implementation for all food and beverages available in DPS schools and facilities. (For example, school cafeterias, snack, and beverage vending machines.)
2. Develop recommendations regarding nutrition education for DPS students.
3. Review and revise, as necessary, DPS standards for physical education and recommend a plan for their implementation.
4. Determine the feasibility of the recommendations as they pertain to the costs, funding, and sustainability.
5. Develop recommendations regarding appropriate outcome measures.

TIMETABLE

Recommendations presented to the Board of Education in December 2004.

CO-CHAIRS

Dr. Reginald Washington, Pediatric Cardiologist, and Co-Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Task Force on Childhood Obesity.

Elaine Gantz Berman, MSPH, Member, Denver Public Schools Board of Education.