{"id":15480,"date":"2020-03-20T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2020-03-20T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:24:40","slug":"tdoe-partners-with-hoonuit-to-provide-families-access-to-school-meal-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/03\/20\/tdoe-partners-with-hoonuit-to-provide-families-access-to-school-meal-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"TDOE Partners with Hoonuit to Provide Families Access to School Meal Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-335392\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tennessee-Department-of-Education.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Education\" width=\"250\" height=\"111\">Nashville, TN <\/b>&#8211; <\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">In response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) is partnering with Hoonuit to make available a school meal site finder, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolmealfinder.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">SchoolMealFinder.com<\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\">,&nbsp;for Tennessee families to find the closest meal&nbsp;pick up program&nbsp;available to them.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cWe know this is a difficult time for Tennesseans and we want to provide relief for the thousands of students who rely on school meals by providing a tool to help families find meal pick-up sites as easily as possible,&#8221; said Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_484731\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sliced-Bread.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484731\" class=\"wp-image-484731 size-medium\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Education creates school meal site finder, SchoolMealFinder.com, in partnership with Hoonuit to make it easier for families to find closest meal pickup.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sliced-Bread-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Education creates school meal site finder, SchoolMealFinder.com, in partnership with Hoonuit to make it easier for families to find closest meal pickup.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-484731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Department of Education creates school meal site finder, SchoolMealFinder.com, in partnership with Hoonuit to make it easier for families to find closest meal pickup.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cThis critical resource will provide the most up-to-date information submitted to the department so that we can meet the fundamental need of keeping our students fed,\u201d<\/span><span class=\"eop\"> Schwinn stated.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Meal service data&nbsp;from Tennessee is currently&nbsp;loaded&nbsp;into the&nbsp;School Meal Finder&nbsp;site&nbsp;and will continue to be updated&nbsp;daily&nbsp;as more meal service stops become&nbsp;available&nbsp;throughout the state&nbsp;and reported to the Department.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">School Meal Finder is managed by Hoonuit, an existing&nbsp;resource used by many education systems to provide analytics and professional development solutions to improve student outcomes.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Hoonuit utilizes an interactive map to allow users to search by city, zip code, and address to locate the nearest food pick up site.&nbsp;Once a user selects the desired pick up location, hours of operation and other relevant information are available.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Most internet browsers, including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari,&nbsp;are compatible with School Meal Finder. Hoonuit is currently working to make School Meal Finder compatible with Internet Explorer.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">To access the meal locator, visit&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolfoodfinder.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">http:\/\/schoolfoodfinder.com\/<\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">To contact Hoonuit directly, call 866.259.6890 Ext 8 or visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hoonuit.com\/lp\/school-meal-finder\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">https:\/\/hoonuit.com\/lp\/school-meal-finder\/<\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">For TDOE nutrition-related information, visit&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/education\/health-and-safety\/update-on-coronavirus.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/education\/health-and-safety\/update-on-coronavirus.html<\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; In response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) is partnering with Hoonuit to make available a school meal site finder, SchoolMealFinder.com,&nbsp;for Tennessee families to find the closest meal&nbsp;pick up program&nbsp;available to them.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe know this is a difficult time for Tennesseans and we want to provide relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[549,284,12441,908,261,886,4364],"class_list":["post-15480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-penny-schwinn","tag-tdoe","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-education","tag-usda-school-meals-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}