Ratifies up to $50,000 for Planting Justice to teach nutrition at Dewey Academy
Planting Justice, an Oakland nonprofit, will teach nutrition to 100 to 130 students in the Health Pathway at Dewey Academy. Lessons cover how food affects the body and health. The agreement runs from September 1, 2025 through May 28, 2026. This is a ratification, so the work began before the board vote.
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- Vendor / partner
- Planting Justice · Oakland, CA
- Action
- New agreement
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- Classroom & academic programs
- Term
- Sep 1, 2025 – May 28, 2026
- This vote
- $50,000
- Schools
- Dewey Academy
- Funding
- CCSPP Implementation Grant
- Resource / site
6332-310- Vendor no.
005237- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
25-2055· agendaO.-61- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Sep 10, 2025
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2025-2026 by and between the District and Planting Justice, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide nutrition education that will enable students to test real-life nutritional situations; educate students in the Health Pathway on nutrition, the study of nutrients in food, how the body uses nutrients, and the relationship between diet, health, and disease; help students understand their health, while learning why what you eat is truly what you are, and how to properly lose weight, maintain a healthy weight, or gain weight; what foods are healthy and which foods are damaging, for 100-130 students at Dewey Academy, from September 1, 2025, through May 28, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $50,000.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report