HEALTHY SCHOOLS. Leaders of philanthropic foundations recognized schools that are succeeding in creating healthier places for students to learn and staff to work. The award-winning schools have adopted policies and practices that promote physical activity and healthy eating and help combat the childhood obesity epidemic. Principals of honored schools are being invited to join this program.

Guests: John Govea, Senior Program Officer, Healthy Schools Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ, www.healthiergeneration.org/schools; Rosanna Lopez, PE and Health Teacher, American Senior High School, Dade County (Miami), Florida, http://american.dade.k12.fl.us/.

EAT-INS. The Child Nutrition Act, the law that rules the national school food programs, expires at the end of September. New bills in Congress are seeking to improve school lunches by allowing more children to access free meals, banning trans fats in schools, and working on healthier menus. Thousands across the country are organizing public potlucks on Labor Day to urge schools to serve healthy food and ban junk food.

Guests: Julie Burns and Gloria Cepin, Slow Food USA, New York, NY; Rep. Sam Farr, Democrat, Monterey county, Salinas, CA, www.farr.house.gov