Bake Sales in New York Schools Are Largely Extinct New York City Department of Education,

That was before the New York City Department of Education, as part of an anti-obesity drive, began restricting what could be sold in machines and in fund-raising events held in schools. Out were brownies; in were granola bars. Out were chocolate chip cookies; in were gummy fruit snacks. Bake sales began to seem like little more than trips to a nutritionally correct vending machine. </P>The only truly successful item on the cleared list was brown-sugar Pop Tarts. Ms. Carlson ordered some

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