For seven years, Connecticut has ranked last in the percentage of National School Lunch Program schools also serving school breakfast, according to the Food Research and Action Center. In September, 89 out of 1,100 Connecticut schools offered school breakfast. But the State Department of Education and local nonprofits are working to increase the number of schools offering breakfast. The Breakfast Expansion Team assisted 68 schools with setting up school breakfast programs last year, and 57 schools so far this year. Teachers, nurses and administrators are saying that schools implementing breakfast are seeing better-behaved students, more classroom participation, and fewer nurses’ office visits.
Source: Yale Daily News, 11/14/13, CT School Breakfast
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