On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.

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To put this controversial news story in perspective, first let me point out that only 1 percent of the 521 school districts surveyed by the School Nutrition Association said they were dropping out of the program. That means that 99 percent of districts continue to participate in the NSLP