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Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day, but Not on the Schedule for Many Students

  

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Celia Cole /(512) 320-0222 x110

August 7, 2007

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Kids need pens and notebooks to get through the school day, but they also need a healthy breakfast. Yet, a new report from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) in Washington, D.C., finds that in many large urban school districts, including the Houston Independent School District (HISD), most of their low-income students are not getting breakfast on a daily basis. HISD is working to change that by making breakfast part of the school day with its “First Class Breakfast” program.