Ray Salazar fondly remembers the lunches he got at school in the 1980s, especially the “stick-to-your-ribs” chop suey and turkey a la King followed by a warm piece of chocolate cake. This wasn’t at a private school — this was Hubbard High School, a public school in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood.

Now, as a CPS high school teacher, Salazar shudders at what he sees on his students’ trays today.

“It seems like it’s just getting worse and worse,” he said. “What I see in the lunchroom is those sad hamburgers, as one student described them to me. There’s like, a handful of chicken nugget things and like, an apple.”

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At a recent CPS-hosted taste test at Hanson Park Elementary in Belmont Cragin, students had mixed reviews with some specific complaints. Many complaine

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