By Ryan Quinn The West Virginia Board of Education on Thursday approved removing much of the state's public school meal nutrition standards and tying them to federal minimum requirements, and approved allowing the sharing of homemade and non-nutritional foods in public schools - if county school boards also choose to allow them. "It goes back to giving local control," state school board member Miller Hall said of the policy changes. But the changes, which the state board approved in a voice vote, also ban county public school systems from "penalizing students due to unpaid and/or outstanding meal debt." Amanda Harrison, executive director of state Department of Education's Office of Child Nutrition, said the language is intended to ban school systems from even denying providing a meal to a child who, ahead of being served, says they have no money. The changes also ban, in more clear language, penalizing students for already outstanding meal debt.