On an average day in the 2014–2015 school year, 11.7 million students eligible to receive free and reduced-price meals participated in school breakfast, an increase of 4.2 percent or nearly 475,000 children over the previous year.
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Recent news stories about school districts that participate in the Summer Meal Programs shows creative ways to feed more children — from using food trucks to delivering meals to parks.
In a recent op-ed column in The Philadelphia Tribune, Children’s Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman wrote that the participation gap between the National School Lunch Program and the Summer Food Service Program means that nine out of ten children receiving lunch “may not be receiving the nourishment necessary for proper physical, cognitive, and social development during the long summer months.”
After teaming up with us to promote School Breakfast in the fall, the Dallas Mavericks partnered with us again recently to promote the expansion of the After School Meal Program for Dallas ISD.