You’ve Been Served

“The success that McCoy has achieved in Cabell County is rare, and was due to a propitious confluence of factors. Not every district has such a supportive superintendent, for instance, or such an overwhelming determination to prove a reality TV star wrong. But what McCoy did isn’t magic. Much of what made the Huntington experiment work is transferable to other places — so long as they have someone like McCoy.” HuffPo goes deep on school lunches: How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off an honest-to-god miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities. (The word miracle is overused, except when it comes to getting kids to eat healthy, in which case it is underused.)