{"id":31811,"date":"2022-02-28T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=31811"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:47:26","slug":"farm-to-school-program-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=31811","title":{"rendered":"Farm-to-school program expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early childhood education programs are included in the Nebraska farm-to-school program under a bill given final approval Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24402\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24402\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24402\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542115071&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;98&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenBrandt_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brandt&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brandt&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24402\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Tom Brandt\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tom Brandt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawmakers created the program in 2021 with passage of a bill sponsored by Plymouth Sen. Tom Brandt that requires the state Department of Education to administer a program to help provide locally grown and minimally processed food to elementary and secondary school students in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>LB758, introduced by Brandt this session, expands the law to include early childhood education programs licensed under the state\u2019s Child Care Licensing Act.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 46-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early childhood education programs are included in the Nebraska farm-to-school program under a bill given final approval Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-31811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-tom-brandt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31813,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions\/31813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}