Healthy Food in the Lunchroom? First, You Need a Healthy Debate.

Reports that state legislators are leaning toward enacting far-reaching changes throughout Connecticut's public schools. State debate over junk food in schools; Decision by New Haven's schools to banish candy, sodas and vending machines and replace them with healthier choices; Roles of Donald E. Williams Jr., the Senate president pro tem, and Lucy Nolan, executive director of End Hunger Connecticut, a nonprofit advocacy group concerned with nutrition; Outlook for passage of a Senate bill that could end up as the toughest law in the country; Details of the bill, which addresses childhood obesity; Opposition to the bill by Republicans.