School Breakfasts (and lunches)

First some history of the school lunch program.  It was begun under
Harry Truman.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/

School breakfast programs came into being in 1966.

http://www.frac.org/html/federal_food_programs/programs/sbp.html


Universal school breakfast refers to any school program that offers
breakfast at no charge to all students, regardless of income. (Schools
that offer universal school breakfast are still in the minority, and
must seek local or state resources to cover any additional costs
involved.) Many universal school breakfast programs provide breakfast
in the classroom when school starts in the morning, rather than in the
cafeteria before school starts, which makes it easier for children to
participate.

Schools that provide universal breakfast in the classroom re****t
decreases in discipline and psychological problems, visits to school
nurses and tardiness; increases in student attentiveness and
attendance; and generally improved learning environments.

Participation

On a typical day during the 2006-07 school year, 9.9 million children
in more than 84,500 schools and institutions participated in the SBP.
Of these children, 81 percent received free or reduced price
breakfasts.

About 85 percent of schools that serve lunch also serve breakfast. In
the 2006-07 school year, 45.3 children received free or reduced price
school breakfast for every 100 who received free-or reduced price
school lunch, although this ratio varied among the states from 32.9
per 100 to 61.1 per 100. Research shows that universal school
breakfast programs dramatically increase student participation in
school breakfast. 


-- 
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

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