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More Ohio Kids Having Breakfast After the School Bell

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Monday, February 16, 2015   

COLUMBUS, Ohio – More children are getting healthy school breakfasts in Ohio and across the nation, according to a new School Breakfast Scorecard.

The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) says that last school year, more than 11 million low-income students ate breakfast at school, an increase of 320,000 over the previous year.

FRAC President Jim Weill says that number could continue to climb with a relatively new U.S. Department of Agriculture program called Community Eligibility.

It allows schools to feed all students free of charge in areas where most are low-income.

"The advantage of this is, it eliminates the stigma of these programs being seen as for poor kids,” Weill explains. “It eliminates the differential between what kids are eating. It eliminates paperwork – it's just fabulous all around to offer meals to all kids for free."

During this school year, 261 Ohio school districts used the Community Eligibility Provision.

And the report found more than 350,000 Ohio children got breakfast at school – 6,000 more than the previous year.

Ohio ranked 25th among states for getting breakfast to low-income children.

Weill says those schools or states that are most successful at feeding children are the ones that are serving breakfast in the classroom or, for older students, offering it at grab-and-go carts in the hallways.

"The school districts and the states that are seeing the most progress year to year are not making kids go to the cafeteria half an hour before school starts, but are serving breakfast after the bell, are doing much better," he points out.

Weill stresses when breakfast participation goes up, not only are fewer children going hungry, it's also helping to improve their health, their behavior in school and their ability to learn.




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