If you'd like to voice your objection to the bill, please consider signing this petition from Food Policy Action and this one launched on Change.org by a second grade teacher worried about
the hungry kids in her classroom.
More than half of teachers (53 %) say they purchase food for
hungry kids in their classrooms.
Not exact matches
She spoke passionately about all the things we do not currently measure that matter, such as feeding
hungry students, noisy
classrooms where active learning is happening, and
kids getting messy
in the
classroom.
Analysis shows that,
in Maryland, schools serving breakfast
in their
classrooms experienced as much as a 7.2 percent lower rate of chronic absenteeism, and students
in schools serving breakfast
in their
classrooms were 12.5 percent more likely to achieve proficiency on standardized math tests (Deloitte & No
Kid Hungry, 2013).