School breakfast can improve attendance!
Eating school breakfast increases student attendance by an average of 1.5 days of school per year.
Attendance at school is essential for academic success. Yet, chronic absenteeism (missing 10% of more of school for any reason) is negatively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of California kids.
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At least 1.7 million households with children in California cannot consistently afford enough food. Schools are in a unique position to contribute to child nutrition through school meal programs, but there are millions of children who aren’t reached by these programs. Increasing access to healthy meals at school is critical to ensuring students can learn, grow, and achieve. So how can schools optimize their LCFF investments by improving school meal programs and increasing participation?
Co-authored by California Food Policy Advocates and the Partnership for Children & Youth, this second chapter of “Student Supports: Getting the Most out of Your LCFF Investment” dives into the most impactful practices for school nutrition and how they can help support progress on the LCFF priorities.
A webpage with resources to help you better understand the Child and Adult Care Food Program and its requirements.
A brief to help governance teams start thinking about how they may bring these benefits to their districts and learn about some best practices other districts have developed to establish successful breakfast after the bell programs.
A website that offers best practices, data, and other tools developed to help guide the implementation of effective school breakfast models.
A webportal for information on how and why to implement breakfast in the classroom.
A list of publically funded school nutrition programs, with links to webpages for each program.
