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The School Lunch Program Is Essential For The Health And Wellbeing Of The Nation 's Children

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Siuzy Papazyan
Policy Memo #2
Education policy is principle of the government policy in educational sphere, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern operations of the education systems. Within this sphere of education come Market and Non Market Failure. In economics market failure is a stimulation in which the allocation of goods and services is not efficient. Market failure occurs due to inefficiency in the distribution of goods and services. A price mechanism fails to account for all costs and benefits involved when providing or consuming a specific good. In the school lunch policy market and non-market failure apply. I have chosen the school lunch system because it stems into the obesity epidemic. Obesity is a huge …show more content…

Obesity is crucial in this country, in order for there to be a change we need to start serving healthy foods at schools. The First Lady Michelle Obama brought this healthy lunch concern to the educational system. California’s Department of Education Nutrition Services provides fresh fruit and vegetables to students as a supplement throughout the day. California’s schools have moved ahead to support Hunger-Free Kids policy. The local government regulates school districts including Los Angeles Unified School District to serve whole grains, fruits and vegetables versus foods high in calories. The Hunger-Free Kids policy allowed public schools to serve healthy lunches preventing obesity.
Non-market failures arise when a nonmarket solution, rather than or in addition to correcting the market failure, creates an even more inefficient allocation of goods that might have occurred in the absence of intervention.
Marketing is the action of business and advertising within the schools. Large companies like Kellogg’s or Smuckers want to promote within schools. A non-market strategy is an influence for groups to have soft power on their competition/ or an involuntary impact. The difference between the market and non-market is a market stakeholder is involved with revenue. A non-market is unrelated to the financial operations.
There are pros and cons to both marketing and non-market stakeholder. The market stakeholders are obsessed with a sale. If they work with a district

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