No problem. If they don't want federal involvement in feeding their students all they have to do is reject tax payer funds. This is not a constitutional issue. It is a contractual agreement issue. The school board accepts funds for purchase, preparation and distribution of food for school children. They agree to follow regulations and rules regarding types of food and the health and safety codes as specified by the tax payers via the federal government. They wish to discard and ignore their part of the contract and the government has informed them that if they do they will no longer be eligible to receive tax payer funds. Nothing remotely related to constitutional law involved in this situation. You agree to accept free money and funding you will have to abide by some rules. Take it of leave it.Sounds like the school board couldn't figure out how to operate an efficient system so they are trying to take a short cut by operating a food processing facility without having to follow health and safety regulations for operating such a facility. The feds told them they had to follow those health and safety regulations or the feds with cease and desist their partnership and liability with the process. What other choice does the Fed have? Should they give the school the OK to process food knowing they may not have the equipment, such as refrigeration units and sterilization equipment or required oversight management personnel?
I'm trying to find that part of the Constitution that makes it any of the federal government's business in the first place. If you find that get back to us.
Education is a local matter and always has been until recent years
Predictably, because you are leftist, you are confused about the diff between "attaching strings" to Federal Grants and outright coercion and abuse of power. Those "food processing plant" regulations are intended for companies engaged in InterState commerce. Which CLEARLY is not the case if a local school district does the right thing and concentrates some of it's food prep for the district in one facility.. Those are subject to more than adequate state and local laws and inspections. Usually, when someone starts claiming that folks are gonna die if the Feds don't step in right away -- it's because they are the left who believe that all competence and accountability is contained in the inept and UNACCOUNTABLE Federal bureaucracy.
This is a shakedown -- pure and simple..