Bobert: Who has a "stanglehold on wealth"? That is another one of your straw man issues.

Why do you say "We used to have school breakfast programs" when they have never been stopped? Is this question to hard for you to understand? I have asked you several times.

During the first year of operation, the SBP served about 80,000 children at a federal cost of $573,000.
For Fiscal Year 2005, the School Breakfast Program cost $1.92 billion, up from $1.77 billion in Fiscal Year 2004.
The cost in previous years: 1970: cost of $ 10.8 million: 1975: cost of $ 86.1 million; 1980: cost of $287.8 million; 1985: cost of $379.3 million; 1990: cost of $ 599.1 million; 1995: cost of $1.04 billion; 2000: cost of $1.39 billion.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/breakfast/AboutBFast/SBPFactSheet.pdf

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

P.O. BOX 2120

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23218-2120

SUPTS. MEMO NO. 43

September 29, 2006

ADMINISTRATIVE

TO:
        

Division Superintendents



FROM:
        

Billy K. Cannaday, Jr.

Superintendent of Public Instruction



SUBJECT:
        

School Breakfast Program - State Funding Incentive Payment for Increased Student Participation 2005-2006



The General Assembly provided $892,020 per year in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 to continue state funding for the school breakfast program as an incentive to improve the level of student participation. This incentive funding is available to any school division that increases its breakfast participation above the baseline established in school year 2003-2004 (base year). Each school division's baseline is unique to its base year breakfast participation. The level of funding is $0.20 per meal served above the baseline number of meals served per student for each division.
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/suptsmemos/2006/adm043.html


The two said Newark schools deserve praise for making sure all schoolchildren eat breakfast.

The goal of the project is to educate parents, teachers, administrators and students about the importance of breakfast and the options available for schoolchildren to receive breakfast in school.

"A good breakfast gives you a good start to the morning, and you respond better to teachers," said Dole, the former Kansas senator. "You can't run a car without gasoline, and you can't run a body without some food."

Dole, the Republican nominee in 1996, admitted the young audience probably didn't know who he or McGovern was. "I know you young children are really excited to see me and Senator McGovern," he teased.

He said a lack of interest in school breakfast programs is unfortunate because there is public money available to pay for it -- about $500 million.

In fact, millions of children in need do not get breakfast at school, even though they are eligible to receive it, Dole said. Out of 55 million children who attend public school in the United States, 29 million participate in the National School Lunch Program, yet only 9 million eat breakfast at school. These children are entitled to breakfast through the "School Breakfast Program."

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Newark should be lauded for its efforts, they said.

"This city may have the strongest school breakfast program of any city in the nation," said McGovern, the former senator from South Dakota who ran for president in 1972. "We decided to come here and take a look at the program."

The two former senators were invited to the school by East Side Entrees, a New York-based company that supplies food products to schools. The company launched "Breakfast Breaks," a kid-friendly "grab and go" breakfast in a box that, when served with milk, meets all of the USDA guidelines for a healthy breakfast.

Gary Davis, company CEO, said he asked the two senators to head the program because of their past roles as leaders on issues of nutrition, health and hunger in America.

Davis said so far, 160 school districts have signed on to the program, and that his group would like to use Newark as a blueprint.

As senators, Dole and McGovern's work has helped form nutrition policy in America, he said. For one, they teamed to lead the fight for the International School Lunch program, also known as the McGovern-Dole Global School Feeding Initiative.

Dole was a leading sponsor of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, the reformed food stamp program, and the expansion in the 1970s of the school lunch-breakfast program. McGovern helped found the U.N. World Food Program and chaired the Select Committee on Nutrition and led the effort to reform the food stamp program and expand school lunch and breakfast programs.

At the event, two Newark school officials -- Valerie Wilson, assistant school business administrator, and Tonya Riggins, director of Food and Nutrition Services -- were honored for expanding the school breakfast program.

Wilson said that the district has traditionally offered a breakfast program, but that last year, it decided to expand it. In the past, breakfast was offered only prior to the start of classes, but now students can also eat during the first 10 minutes of class while the teacher takes attendance.

"Teachers have said that children are quieter and there are less sick calls," Wilson said, referring to the benefits of breakfast.

Each winner will be featured on a fall 2006 edition of the "got breakfast" poster, to be displayed in schools in their area.

McGovern said eating breakfast is the best way to start the day. "It's hard to be quiet and to learn when your stomach is growling," he said.
http://www.alliancetoendhunger.org/articles/2006/star-ledger_mar_8.htm

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Attention poor kids: Even though the FDA spent $1.92 billion on school breakfast programs, Bobert says you needn't bother going to school because the breakfast program has ended. Boss Hogg did it.