During the first year, a private foundation funded the project; in the subsequent two years, Little
Rock School District funded the plan at some schools, and private funders (the Brown Foundation, Hussman Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation) did so at other schools.
These eight
districts joined our original five
districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little
Rock (AR), Memphis City
Schools (TN), Orange County Public
Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public
Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally -
funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.
The Little
Rock, Ark., public
schools are facing a cash - flow crisis that will force them to close next month unless efforts to secure an infusion of
funds prove successful, the
district's superintendent, Ruth Steele, said last week.