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The LAUSD ban was co-authored by board members Julie Korenstein and Marlene Canter. Korenstein stated that the ban was needed to fight obesity among students (Associated Press, 2002, n.p.). According to the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, 40 percent of California's children are physically unfit, and more than 25 percent are overweight, (Shire, 2003, n.p.). Board Member Canter added that "[i]f we're going to be successful in closing the achievement gap and raising student achievement, we need to focus on the whole child" (Robertson & Walter, 2002, p. 1).

Jacqueline Domac is a health teacher at Venice High School in Los Angeles and a former site coordinator for California Project LEAN Food on the Run who was instrumental in instituting an early ban on soda sales at Venice High. Ms. Domac stated that she argued to the LAUSD board that "they take the lead in promoting better health

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h of the students was more important" (Hutkin, 2003, n.p.). In another case, however, the school district chose to reverse the ban over such revenue concerns. In November 2003, the Yuba City Unified School District board voted to modify its school nutritional policy to once again allow sales of sodas and other carbonated beverages at Yuba City High School (Dickey, 2003, n.p.). The board voted 6_1 in favor of modifying its August ban against foods with non-nutritional value on all school campuses. In modifying the ban, however, the district also set up a committee to study the nutrition issue and come up with recommendations for other measures it could take (Dickey, 2003, n.p.). Yuba City Board member Kendra Ollar, who made the motion to allow carbonated beverages at the high school, stated that she believed in the policy against non-nutritional foods but reversed the soda ban because she was concerned about lost revenue for student activities. Notably, the money from soda machine sales raised $47,000 for such activities in 2002 (Dickey, 2003, n.p.). Nonetheless, Yuba City's reversal of its soda ban seems somewhat short-sighted. For example, some schools districts in California are finding that they generate as much as if n
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