Maryland Leaders Ask for More Money for Free School Breakfast
Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin led a group of state lawmakers to increase funding for a school breakfast program.
Nearly every student at Roscoe Nix Elementary in Silver Spring eats a free and nutritionally balanced breakfast. Teachers serve hot meals in the classroom before the first bell instead of the usual busy cafeteria. It's an unconventional approach to feeding students, but one that lawmakers from Montgomery County hope will become the norm in more schools. Council member Valerie Ervin (D-Silver Spring) joined students and members of the Maryland General Assembly Wednesday to tout the success of the Maryland Meals for Achievement program at schools like Roscoe Nix. She penned a letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley and State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery that calls for an additional $1.8 million in funding to put the program in 130 …
Craig
7:37 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Have they means-tested this? HOW DO WE KNOW that there are 80K children in MoCo without the ability to get / afford a quality breakfast? I guarantee, positively guarantee that if you took a sampling of the children, some would be wearing $60-$100 shoes from Footlocker, or they would have cell phones. Does a child with multiple $60-$100 shoes need a free breakfast? Their parents can't purchase … more ›