How to Start a Good School Day

An Editorial Recommended by Sandy Berabei

Breakfast is served every weekday morning to 12 million students across the country, courtesy of the Department of Agriculture. Free breakfast reduces hunger and can improve academic performance, but in New York City, too many students do not get the meals they need.

The city’s school system is among the least effective in the country in providing free breakfast to low-income children, with only 35 percent getting the meal, according to the latest report from the Food Research and Action Center, a nonprofit organization. By contrast, Newark provides breakfast to 92 percent of low-income students.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/how-to-start-a-good-school-day.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0