Presentation addresses strategies to provide breakfast to students (ex. SBP, grab and go, coordinating bus schedules, breakfast after the bell).

This rule establishes requirements for districts and charter schools to establish a school breakfast program providing free breakfast after the instructional day has begun, in all districts in which eighty-five percent or more of the enrolled students at the elementary school were eligible for free or reduced lunch during the prior school year.

A. "Breakfast after the bell program" means an elementary school breakfast program in which food shall be served or consumed, at no charge, after the instructional day has begun, provided that instruction occurs simultaneously, to all students attending that elementary school through a school breakfast program that meets the federal school breakfast program Standard as authorized by Section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and operated in accordance with all applicable policies, guidance, and law, including the requirements listed in 7 CFR Part 220.

B. An elementary school in which eighty-five percent or more of the enrolled students at the school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Act of 1946 during the prior school year shall establish a breakfast after the bell program unless the school is granted a waiver by the department as per 6.12.9 NMAC.

C. An elementary school in which fewer than eighty-five percent or more of the enrolled students at the school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Act of 1946 during the prior school year and accepts state funding for the breakfast after the bell program shall establish a breakfast after the bell program.

A. School districts and charter schools shall establish a "breakfast after the bell program" to provide free breakfast, after the instructional day has begun, to all students attending a public school in which eighty-five percent or more of the enrolled students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Act during the prior school year.

B. A school district or charter school that includes a public school in which fewer than eighty-five percent of the enrolled students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch during the prior school year under the National School Lunch Act may establish a breakfast after the bell program to provide free breakfast, after the instructional day has begun, to all students attending that public school; provided that the program complies with all applicable department rules relating to the breakfast after the bell program authorized by this section.

C. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to prohibit a school that establishes a breakfast after the bell program under the provisions of Subsection A or B of this section from beginning breakfast service before the start of the instructional day; provided that the school also serves breakfast after the beginning of the instructional day in the location of its choice, including the cafeteria, classroom, on the bus, or by providing a hand-carried breakfast.

Manual addresses strategies to provide breakfast to students (ex. SBP, grab and go, coordinating bus schedules, breakfast after the bell).