School lunch waiver

Helen Smith, left and cafeteria manager Illa Thurmond serve fourth grade students lunch including pre-fried and reheated chicken strips, or bbq sandwiches, wheat bread, mac and cheese, and green beans at Russell Cave Elementary School in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Debate in Washington over a controversial school lunch waiver has spread into the Bluegrass State, where proponents say the innocuous proposal helps rural schools, and which critics argue threatens years of work combating one of the nationÕs largest childhood obesity rates. The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on an appropriations bill that includes the waiver provision. (Pablo Alcala/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)