Category
Breakfast at School
Category
Breakfast at School
State law recommends strategies to ensure students eat breakfast in the morning or maintains a program that only applies to certain schools (e.g., schools with 70% FRPL students).
Breakfast in the Classroom Procedures
Document addresses strategies to provide breakfast to students.
Breakfast is in the Bag
Document addresses strategies to provide breakfast to students.
New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-11.1 "Breakfast after the bell" program; report to Governor Legislature.
- a. A public school operated by a school district of the State participating in the federal school breakfast program or a nonpublic school participating in the federal school breakfast program is encouraged to increase the number of students participating in the program by establishing a “breakfast after the bell” program through the incorporation of school breakfast in the first-period classroom or during the first few minutes of the school day.
New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-11.2 Findings, declarations relative to the "breakfast after the bell" program.
The Legislature therefore determines it to be the public policy of the State to help remove a major barrier to learning by providing children the nutrition they need to succeed in school, and determines that it is the understanding and the intention of the Legislature to make breakfast part of the school day, and that “breakfast after the bell” is the most effective way to ensure that all students have the morning nutrition they need to concentrate, learn, and succeed in school.
New Jersey Statutes 18A:33-11.3 Establishment of "breakfast after the bell" program in certain public schools.
a. Every public school in which 70% or more of the students enrolled in the school on or before the last school day before October 16 of the preceding school year were eligible for free or reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program 1 or the federal School Breakfast Program 2 , shall establish a school “breakfast after the bell” program.