About 50 parents and activists brought valentines for the people who run the L.A. school food program: Gallon milk jugs filled with sugar and decorated with hearts, tokens they hoped would help get strawberry-flavored and chocolate milk out of cafeterias.
The group rallied Monday afternoon outside the downtown headquarters of the L.A. Unified School District and then walked to the district offices. Their call for a food services official to come out to meet them went unanswered.
The group had planned to bring a friendly — yet pointed — message to a Monday meeting of the district’s Cafeteria Improvement Committee; but a couple of hours before the meeting, e-mails went out saying it was canceled because some members could not attend.
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