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Are School Lunches Making Kids Fat

By Rachel Estabrook on Wednesday, June 9, 2004.

A representative from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came to New Hampshire today as part of a nationwide series of forums on obesity.

Obesity rates have tripled among youth in the past 30 years, and the federal government is looking to local officials and interest groups for solutions.

NHPR's Rachel Estabrook has more.

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Special Education Identification

By Raquel Maria Dillon on Wednesday, June 9, 2004.

The New Hampshire Department of Education has released a count of all the special education students in districts around the state. Some school districts identify very few students, proportionally. But other districts have coded as many as one in five students as needing special services. People who work in the special education field say these differences from town to town don't surprise them at all. New Hampshire Public Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon explores why.

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