Long Beach : Policy Change Considered for Fast Food on Campuses

Students at two high schools in the Long Beach Unified School District may get to continue buying their Big Macs, Domino’s pizza and other fast foods on campus. District administrators are considering changing a policy that limits on-campus sales by outside franchises.

Officials at Lakewood and Millikan high schools contracted with fast-food outlets to take turns each day delivering food, which is sold by student workers from their own student stores. District officials said, however, that a district policy limits such sales to four days in the school year.

Earlier this week, the principals in the district’s five high schools convinced Assistant Supt. Edward M. Eveland that it is safer to have fast-food outlets deliver their goods than to have students leave campus for lunch. Eveland said he would support a change in the policy to allow fast-food deliveries three times a week. Now, supporters of the change must convince the superintendent, the school board and cafeteria workers, who fear that the outside sales may threaten their jobs.