This report looks at school breakfast participation and policies in 76 large school districts across the country to evaluate successful practices in reaching more low-income children with school breakfast. This is a companion report to the School Breakfast Scorecard. Also check out our interactive school breakfast participation map.
December 21, 2018 During the holidays and all year long, millions of individuals and families who struggle against hunger are able to access healthy food with support from the federal nutrition programs. To celebrate the nation’s nutrition safety net, FRAC is releasing a seven-part “Remember This December” series that will highlight the impact of seven […]
Get ready to make some noise and celebrate the many benefits of the School Breakfast Program! On Thursday, March 8, during National School Breakfast Week, advocates, policymakers, and schools will join Maryland Hunger Solutions and D.C. Hunger Solutions in Hear the Crunch! The annual event, where students, educators, policymakers, and many others in D.C. and […]
This interactive map provides state-by-state data on participation in the free and reduced-price School Breakfast Program, as compared to participation in the free and reduced-price National School Lunch Program. Data are also featured in FRAC’s reports, School Breakfast Scorecard: School Year 2016-2017 (pdf), and School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts (pdf), released […]
FRAC’s School Breakfast Scorecard released this week reveals that on an average school day in the 2016–2017 school year, 12.2 million low-income students participated in school breakfast, an increase of 0.6 percent compared to the prior school year. While participation has continued to increase, the rate of growth slowed, from an average of 390,000 additional […]