School Breakfast Program (SBP)
The School Breakfast Program (SBP) provides cash assistance to States to operate nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions. The program is administered at the Federal level by FNS. State education agencies administer the SBP at the State level, and local school food authorities operate it in schools.
N.C. State Board of Education Resolution to Promote School Breakfast
The North Carolina State Board of Education passed a Resolution to Promote School Breakfast. This resolution recognizes the importance of breakfast and encourages Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to seek multiple and innovative ways of increasing school breakfast participation and consider providing breakfast in the classroom during appropriate educational and instructional activities as one of multiple ways to remove barriers to the school breakfast programs and an additional way of caring for and nurturing public school children in the state.
Innovative School Breakfast Programs
We know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and provides students with the needed fuel for a successful day of learning. On the other hand, getting students to the cafeteria before school starts is a daily challenge for many schools. This resource provides some creative and innovative methods that schools could implement that would provide school breakfast to students every day without losing part of the instructional day as well as increase participation in the School Breakfast Program.
Breakfast is Brain Fuel Toolkit Breakfast is Brain Fuel is a school breakfast toolkit tailored for North Carolina that offers resources to educate students about the importance and benefits of breakfast, motivate students to eat breakfast, gain support for school breakfast, and encourage students and families to utilize school breakfast. For more information about the toolkit please contact Tracey Bates at: tracey.bates@dpi.nc.gov.