Designed after the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the newrules require schools that participate in federally funded school lunch programs to offer fruit and vegetable daily and in larger quantities than in the past, serve only fat-free or low-fat milk, and limit calories by age.
However, after months of intense lobbying by the for-profit schools, their front groups, and conservative lawmakers, the newrules are significantly weaker than draft rules first proposed by the Education Department last year.
The Conservatives counter by saying that the newschools would have to abide by the old admissions rules, with no interviewing of applicants and no preference for able students.