AMARILLO, TEXAS -- President Obama's food nutrition program was signed into law this week which is expected to help school lunch programs and increase their nutritional values.
Just how far reaching are those programs? We wanted to see the impact they'd have on local schools.
It seems students and parents won't see any changes within the Amarillo Independent School District.
Brent Hoover, AISD Food Services Director, said they're well ahead of the national curve that's just been set, and have been for quite some time.
"We've already made all those changes and so the things coming from Congress is basically...we've already implemented those changes. So we don't anticipate any major changes in AISD, because, like I said before, our priorities are always to serve safe and healthy meals."
The $4.5 billion federal program expands the free meals program at schools and allows the government to decide what kinds of foods may be sold in schools.
Hoover said the school district took junk food out of their venues years ago.
"We don't offer candy bars and those kind of things anywhere in our venues, any vending machines or anything district wide. We made those changes several years ago."
The landmark legislation was unanimously approved by the Senate in August and approved 264 to 157 in the House in early December.
