A wildly ambitious weeklong cafeteria promotion brings a delicious “Taste of College” to high school students in one rural school district.

The idea had been percolating in Kalin Bryan’s head long before she made her first phone call. The former School Nutrition Coordinator at Thomas County (Ga.) Schools (recently moving with her family across the state, but staying in the profession and taking a similar position with Gwinnett County Schools) says it was 2018, when she was working at another Georgia school district, that she first thought of giving high school students a “Taste of College” right in their own cafeteria...