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Running on Empty: Schools Cope with the Roller-Coaster World of Cost Run-Ups and Budget Let-Downs
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LaFee, Scott – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Public education is like riding a roller-coaster, except that in education the thrill tends to come on the way up, when the economy is flying high, and funding is flush and the future feels as bracing as the wind rushing past. However, this is not one of those times. The economy seems to be almost in free fall. Optimism plummets with each…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Education, Costs, Budgeting
Breakfast and the Achievement Gap among Urban Minority Youth
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Basch, Charles E. – Journal of School Health, 2011
Objectives: To outline the prevalence and disparities of breakfast consumption among school-aged urban minority youth, causal pathways through which skipping breakfast adversely affects academic achievement, and proven or promising approaches for schools to increase breakfast consumption. Methods: Literature review. Results: On any given day a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Females, Breakfast Programs, Academic Achievement
Overshadowed
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Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
Ask the average person what comes to mind at the mention of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Odds are the answer involves armed African-Americans winding up in shootouts with police. Those images have overshadowed the Panthers' free breakfast programs, medical clinics and other efforts to improve poor Black neighborhoods in the late 1960s. Also…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Clinics, Breakfast Programs, American Studies
But Is It Nutritious? Computer Analysis Creates Healthier Meals.
Corrigan, Kathleen A.; Aumann, Margaret B. – School Business Affairs, 1993
A computerized menu-planning method, "Nutrient Standard Menu Planning" (NSMP), uses today's technology to create healthier menus. Field tested in 20 California school districts, the advantages of NSMP are cost effectiveness, increased flexibility, greater productivity, improved public relations, improved finances, and improved student…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Eating Habits
Meeting the Dietary Goals for School Meals by the Year 2000: The CATCH Eat Smart School Nutrition Program.
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Nicklas, Theresa A.; And Others – Journal of Health Education, 1994
Provides an overview of the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) Eat Smart School Nutrition Program, an elementary school health promotion program. The article examines components of the CATCH kitchen visits and intervention materials, including the School Meal Program Guide, Fat and Sodium Criteria, Recipe File Box, Vendor…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Cardiovascular System, Child Health, Dietetics
Hunger in the Midst of Affluence: Task Force Combats Hunger in Contra Costa County.
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Fujii, Mary Lavender – California Agriculture, 1994
Research conducted by the Hunger Task Force in Contra Costa County (California) revealed a significant increase in the number of families, especially with young children, who live in poverty and who are going hungry. A food stamp outreach program, a countywide school breakfast program, and food distribution programs have been initiated. (LP)
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Child Health, Children, County Programs