Progress Reports and the May Newsletter will go home with students on May 12. Be looking for them!
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Beef’s Back on the Menu
Issues with beef provided to schools through the school lunch program have been resolved, according to the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).
All packages of beef involved in a recent recall have been destroyed, and schools have been directed that they can again serve beef products to students. Federal Way Public Schools plans to add beef back to the menu within the next month.
On January 31st, the (USDA) notified school districts in the Western Region to "hold" beef products from one of their suppliers for school lunch programs while an investigation was conducted into handling of cattle in a California facility.
Beef products were immediately pulled from cafeterias in the district. As a precaution, schools have not served beef products in school lunches for the past four weeks while waiting for direction from the USDA. Chicken and other foods were substituted for beef during this time.
Like other districts served by this supplier, Federal Way Nutrition Services this week destroyed all recalled beef using a process overseen by OSPI and the King County Health Department. The remaining beef in the Nutrition Services Central Kitchen is not associated with the recall and will be placed back on the menu.
The district was forced to destroy a total of 200 cases of meat and will be applying for reimbursement from the USDA for this economic loss.
The safety and health of our students is the district’s highest priority. If you have questions, please call 253-945-5555 .
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Students who wish to attend after school athletic events as a spectator must now fill out a permission slip. To read about the guidelines and download the permission slip, click HERE.
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A new telephone messaging service has been implemented throughout Federal Way Public Schools. This new service is called Connect-ED. For more information, go to http://www.fwps.org and click on [Connect-ED] This means that if schools are closed or on delayed start, an automated message will come to your phone number that is on file in the Totem Office on the yellow information card. In order for this service to be effective, please make sure your information is updated with the Totem Office. A few messages have already been sent. If you did not get one please call the Totem Office to update your phone number.
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Click HERE to learn about TechStart, a new after school program that began Jan. 9. It is affiliated with the Technology Access Foundation. The TAF Academy is a small school with curriculum that focuses on Science, Math, Technology, and Engineering. It will open on the Totem campus next fall. To learn more about the TAF Academy, click HERE. To download the application for the TAF Academy, click HERE.
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Next PTSA MEETING Thursday, May 15 - 7:00 pm,Totem Library. Come find out what you can do to support Totem!
