Report: Limited Funding, Staff Could Delay DOE Effort To Meet Food Sustainability Goal … A new legislative report offers sparse detail on the planned overhaul of student meals served in Hawaii’s public schools.
Staffing shortages could stall an effort by Hawaii public schools to serve students more local food, according to a new legislative report.
The two-page report, submitted to state lawmakers last month, provides an early look at the Hawaii Department of Education’s strategy to ramp up the percentage of locally grown ingredients in student meals to 30% by 2030, a key condition of Act 175 signed into law last July by Gov. David Ige.
But the report offers no answer for the biggest question involving the public school system’s progress toward compliance with the new legislation: How much local food is currently being served to students?
