policy includes prohibitions on artificial sweeteners and candy sales on
school grounds during the school day, Massachusetts, Holbrook School
Department, Superintendent Susan E. Martin: Murray 2006.08.19
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1365


"*Approved a first reading of a Wellness Policy required by federal
legislation. The policy includes prohibitions on artificial sweeteners
and candy sales on school grounds during the school day, mandates
portion sizes no larger than the maximum for age groups under USDA
guidelines and discourages the use of food in any student incentive
program."

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Holbrook school board seeks returned funds
By Gilbert Arbuckle, Enterprise correspondent

HOLBROOK — Moving quickly on Blue Hills Regional Technical School's
recent announcement that it will return $527,000 to its member towns,
the School Committee voted Wednesday to ask selectmen and the Finance
Committee to help get Holbrook's entire share of the rebate to the
School Department.

In April, Blue Hills promised that if it received more state aid than
expected it would return the funds to its nine member towns.

Blue Hills serves Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton,
Norwood, Randolph and Westwood.

Last week, the school announced that it had received unexpected aid and
was making good on that promise. The rebates will be distributed
according to the number of students each town sends to the school.

The largest rebate, $177,805, will go to Randolph and the smallest,
$4,748, to Westwood. Holbrook will get $68,589.

School Committee member Patrick Culhane, who is also a lawyer and town
moderator, told the committee Wednesday that the rebates will go to the
general fund in each town.

What a town does with its rebate is entirely up to town meeting. Nothing
requires the money be passed on to the schools.

In the case of Holbrook, School Superintendent Susan E. Martin said
Wednesday, “It is critical it come to the school district.”

Two years ago, the district was placed on probation and can barely
satisfy demands of the state Department of Education, she said.

It needs additional funds for professional development, establishing a
comprehensive curriculum and training needed for MCAS improvement, she said.

Martin said the district has only part-time mathematics and literacy
coaches, where the DOE requires full-timer coaches.

The Blue Hills rebate would just about cover the cost of making them
full-time positions, she said.

Director of Finance and Operations Peter Simpson showed the committee
the district's current delivery system exceeds its fiscal 2007 approved
budget by $860,137. To sustain current services will cost about $1.5
million more in fiscal 2008.

The current budget also does not include unfunded mandates by the DOE
for the turnaround plan for the high school.

The committee agreed that the Blue Hills rebate was critical in the
school district's current struggle to preserve its autonomy.

In other business, the committee:

*Approved a first reading of a Wellness Policy required by federal
legislation. The policy includes prohibitions on artificial sweeteners
and candy sales on school grounds during the school day, mandates
portion sizes no larger than the maximum for age groups under USDA
guidelines and discourages the use of food in any student incentive program.

*Announced that transfers from the Junior-Senior High School this year
include 24 to Blue Hills, 11 to Cardinal Spellman, two to Archbishop
Williams and one each to Fontbonne Academy and the Norfolk County
Agricultural School.
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Barbara Davis, Vice Chairperson, e-mail: davis@...;

Patrick Culhane, e-mail: culhane@...;

Christine Golden, e-mail: golden@...;

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M
et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are
degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1349
NIH NLM ToxNet HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank
inadequate re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid):
Murray 2006.08.14

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/f?./temp/~HwoSfJ:1
HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Aspartame

ASPARTAME CASRN: 22839-47-0
METHANOL CASRN: 67-56-1
FORMALDEHYDE CASRN: 50-00-0
FORMIC ACID CASRN: 64-18-6

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1307
formaldehyde from 11% methanol part of aspartame or from red wine
causes same toxicity (hangover) harm: Murray 2006.05.24

Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide
similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for
long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans.

Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes of the dreaded
symptoms of "next morning" hangover.

Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame
in 2 L diet soda, almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg
methanol (wood alcohol). If 30% of the methanol is turned
into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg,
is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in
drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.

Any unsuspected source of methanol, which the body always quickly
and largely turns into formaldehyde and then formic acid, must be
monitored, especially for high responsibility occupations, often with
night shifts, such as pilots and nuclear reactor operators.

http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mgold@...
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2100

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"
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