Farm-to-school programs – can include everything from involving students in gardening on school property to helping kids cook and serve local foods in school lunchrooms.
Dwight Evans will promote farm-to-school programs.
Occurrences
Evidence
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USDA caption identifies Dwight Evans at a Philadelphia student/educator visit before an announcement including $10.7 million for the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program.
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Roll Call 205 was on passage of H.R. 8646; the bill passed 213-210, and Evans (PA) voted Nay.
Assessments
The promise was framed as promoting farm-to-school programs, not necessarily enacting a new federal program. Evans publicly participated in a July 2023 USDA Philadelphia event tied to Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program investments, which is concrete promotional activity while serving in federal office. His later Nay vote on a broad Agriculture appropriations bill that contained farm-to-school provisions does not outweigh that promotion because the vote was on the larger package and is not clear opposition to farm-to-school itself. Timing is later_term because the delivery evidence occurred well after the original campaign context.