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The Food Research Action Center released their second report focused on school breakfast programs across America.
According to the report, Minneapolis ranked second with 69.5 percent of eligible low-income students in the city participating in the national School Breakfast Program during the 2006 to 2007 school year, a ten percent increase from the previous school year.
Breakfast participation ranged from a high of 89 percent in Newark, New Jersey to a low of 29 percent in Chicago, Ill.
The survey found that school districts like Minneapolis that offered breakfast free to all students and served breakfast in the classroom at the start of the school day rather than in the cafeteria generally experienced higher rates of breakfast participation.
The three top performing school districts–Newark, Minneapolis, and Boston, Mass.–all operated programs that served breakfast in the classroom at no charge to the students in many or all schools.
In the report, FRAC recommended that all urban school districts adopt breakfast programs like those in Minneapolis, especially in schools that have large numbers of low-income students.
The full report is available at www.frac.org/pdf/urbanbreakfast08.pdf.
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