He said relaxing the rules was part of the administration’s effort to “make school meals great again.”<br />“If kids aren’t eating the food, and it’s ending up in the trash, they aren’t getting any nutrition — thus undermining the intent of the program,” said Mr. Perdue, who announced the changes<br />with a signed proclamation on Monday after having lunch with students at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Va. Mr. Perdue, a former governor of Georgia, was just confirmed last week.<br />Trump Takes Aim at School Lunch Guidelines and a Girls’ Education Program -<br />By ERICA L. GREEN and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISMAY 1, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — The Trump administration took aim Monday at two signature programs of the former first lady Michelle Obama, rolling back her efforts to promote healthy school lunches nationwide<br />and potentially rebranding her program to educate adolescent girls abroad.<br />It was not clear how serious the administration was about targeting the program, Let Girls Learn, which was spearheaded by President Barack Obama<br />and Mrs. Obama in 2015 to increase educational opportunities for adolescent girls who face physical danger and other obstacles to going to school.<br />“If this administration wants to move in a different direction on girls’ education, that’s certainly their right and understandable, but to tear down a message<br />that was erected in the wake of this terrible incident that happened in Nigeria, and that the world rallied around, I think it is really shameful,” said Brett Plitt Bruen, an Obama administration official who helped create the program.
