Vermont is doing a good job making sure low-income children have breakfast, ranking behind only West Virginia in an annual nationwide study.
The Food Research & Action Center publishes a School Breakfast Scorecard every year, tracking the ratio of low-income students eating breakfast to those eating lunch. Vermont and West Virginia were the only states to meet the study s benchmark of 70 breakfasts for every 100 lunches.
As schools closed and switched to remote learning last March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, foodservice staff began delivering meals through school bus routes, as well as offering pick-up sites at schools and other community locations.
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Updated 2/16/21, 12:43 p.m.
Hawaii ranked second-to-last in providing school breakfasts to low-income students, but the tide may have shifted because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the School Breakfast Scorecard from the Food Research and Action Center, more than 25,000 low-income children in Hawaii took part in the national school breakfast program last school year. That s 40% of all students who received school lunches, which is below the national average of 58%.
However, the report only includes data up to February 2020, when schools across the country closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, the Department of Education started a grab-and-go model at over 200 schools statewide. Free breakfast and lunch are available for children under the age of 18, even if they are not enrolled at the school.
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