"Why Aren't More Schools Serving Breakfast To Kids?"
Aug 1, 2012: A New Jersey radio segment discusses the need for more schools to jump on board and serve breakfast....

End Hunger Connecticut! Delays Breakfast During Conference To Make a Point About School Breakfast
May 23, 2012: By 10am, attendees at the Connecticut School Breakfast Summit were restless. They whispered to each other, complaining about how hungry they were; some rummaged through purses in search of gum or mints. Nurse Stephanie Knutson sat at a desk in the corner, offering saltines and apple juice to conference attendees struggling to ignore their hunger pangs.

Connecticut No Kid Hungry Campaign Hosts School Breakfast Summit
May 4, 2012: Breakfast, the most important meal of the day, was the focus of the Connecticut School Breakfast Summit, the state’s first statewide conference on the School Breakfast Program. Specifically, the event focused on how to make school breakfast more accessible to all students in Connecticut. Governor Dannel P. Malloy joined the Summit as the keynote speaker to show his support for the School Breakfast Program. Special guest Food Network's Chopped Judge, Chef Marc Murphy, was joined by CTs “lunch ladies” that appeared on an episode of Chopped last season. Murphy set the stage for the day by speaking about how we can all do our part to make certain students are getting school breakfast.

A Dangerous Attack on School Breakfast
Apr 25, 2012: Today in the NY Daily News, Share Our Strength Founder and CEO Billy Shore and Weight Watchers president David Kirchhoff reinforce the importance of the school breakfast program and explain how hunger and obesity are related. Here’s an excerpt:

School Meals: The Importance of a Healthy Breakfast
Apr 23, 2012: The New York Times ran an editorial about the importance of school breakfast in the class room in New York City....

Fighting Hunger One Breakfast at a Time
Mar 13, 2012: “Your food is your fuel, it’s your power, it’s your everything. If you don’t have food, you can’t survive.” Those are the words of Yolanda Prim, a middle school principal at Robert Morehead Middle School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

A Great Day Lies Within Everyone
Mar 13, 2012: At Jimmy Dean, we believe that a great day lies within everyone – especially our children. We’ve built our brand belief around the importance of breakfast and I’ve seen firsthand the role that breakfast plays in setting oneself up for success throughout the day, both professionally and at home with my own children.

This is Your Brain on Breakfast
Mar 7, 2012: As part of National School Breakfast Week, we wanted to share some killer facts about the School Breakfast Program. Hint: your brain does better with breakfast.

Breakfast in the Classroom = Positive Results in New Mexico
Mar 6, 2012: I recently visited Deborah Detorie, principal at Montezuma Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Breakfast in the Classroom program has just started for third through fifth graders. During my tour of the classrooms, where students were eating breakfast during the first few minutes of morning instruction, the teacher asked students to raise their hand if they had not regularly eaten breakfast at home or school before the Breakfast in the Classroom program. Nearly half of the students raised their hands. For those students, it could have been any number of reasons why they missed breakfast -- waking up late, rushing to school, or preferring to play outside with friends. Though for some students, it is more serious, there are simply not enough food resources at home to guarantee a breakfast meal.

National School Breakfast Week
Mar 5, 2012: Today marks the beginning of National School Breakfast week. Is there a more scathing indictment of current policy and practice than that we need to have an officially designated week to call attention to something that should be as routine, natural, and unremarkable as making sure that our children have breakfast before setting out to learn for the day?

Chef Bryan Voltaggio Testifies In Support of School Breakfast Program in Maryland
Feb 22, 2012: Bryan Voltaggio, Chef and Co-Owner of VOLT Restaurant, and members of the Partnership to End Childhood Hunger in Maryland, testified yesterday in support of Maryland Meals for Achievement (MMFA), a school breakfast program at the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Education and Economic Development Hearing, at the Lowe House Office Building. Following is his statement in support:

Setting the School Breakfast Record Straight
Feb 9, 2012: Check out Founder and CEO Billy Shore’s new oped in the New York Post about the importance of making sure kids can start the day with healthy food.

Latest School Breakfast Scorecard: Shows Improvement
Feb 3, 2012: On Tuesday, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) released their latest reports on the state of school breakfast in America. The School Breakfast Scorecard and School Breakfast in America’s Big Cities show that in the 2010-2011 school year, more kids ate school breakfast than ever before – but that there is much room for improvement.

Colorado Schools Awarded For Increasing School Breakfast Participation
Feb 2, 2012: Clayton Elementary School Principal Nicole Westfall in Englewood, Colorado has seen firsthand the difference that the Breakfast in the Classroom program has had with her students. “Teachers are reporting increased participation and attention from students and a dramatic increase in endurance. Our families are happier too. They are reporting much less stressful mornings.” Over the past year, Clayton Elementary has seen a 72 percent increase in the School Breakfast Program.

School Breakfast: Colorado No Kid Hungry Campaign
Feb 1, 2012: Colorado No Kid Hungry Campaign and others announced winners in the Colorado School Breakfast Challenge Phase II....

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Jan 31, 2012: title=Lt. Gov. Garcia Announces Winners of Colorado School Breakfast Challenge excerpt=Four local elementary schools win cash prizes for getting more eligible kids to participate in school breakfast programs

School Meals: The Benefits Of Breakfast In The Classroom
Jan 9, 2012: An article from Missouri about the benefits of breakfast in the classroom (expanding to 11 more schools in the state)....

Candor Elementary Begins the Day With a Healthy Breakfast
Dec 14, 2011: Early one morning in late September, I visited Candor Elementary School in Montgomery County, North Carolina with Frank Fiorella, the child nutrition director for the county. In just a few minutes I knew Candor was a very special school, a school committed to the well-being of every child. At Candor Elementary, breakfast is just as important as math, reading, language arts or science. Now in its second year of implementation, universal breakfast has become part of the culture of the school.

Growing School Breakfast, Ending Childhood Hunger
Dec 7, 2011: I’ve seen the reality of child food insecurity in New Mexico. I am witness to households with children whose parents work hard to meet their basic needs but struggle to have enough food resources for sufficient nourishment. I see it in the summer, on weekends, and during the school year.

School Breakfast Barriers in New Jersey
Oct 3, 2011: A Philadelphia Inquirer editorial talks about some of the problems surrounding the implementation of school breakfast in New Jersey....