Colorado may pay to get more local food in schools

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<p>Fairmeadow Elementary School second grade student Jonathan Cheng, center, looks at fruits and vegetables during a school lunch program in Palo Alto, Calif., in December 2010.</p>

Colorado is pondering spending about $1 million a year for five years to put more local produce in school cafeterias.

A grant program up for its first vote Wednesday in a House committee would make Colorado the 17th state to chip in grant money in addition to federal programs to help get more locally grown foods on cafeteria plates.