| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/08/28, 12:21 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Three-quarters of America’s teachers have students who routinely show up to school hungry and half say hunger is a serious problem in their classrooms, according to No Kid Hungry’s annual educator survey. The numbers represent a significant jump from last summer, when about three in five teachers surveyed routinely taught hungry kids.
The report also notes that free- and reduced-price breakfast programs are hugely under-enrolled. Twenty-one million kids eat school lunch, but just 11 million eat school breakfast. Previous research has shown that
child hunger has a profound impact on educational achievement. Closing the school breakfast gap by just
half would produce over 3 million kids with higher test scores and over 800,000 more high school graduates. Hungry kids are at far greater risk of emotional and psychological problems that undermine their education, are far more likely to drop out of high school, and struggle to keep up with the cognitive development of their adequately-fed peers.
Yet Congressional Republicans have proposed cuts to the federal food stamps program that would exacerbate the hungry student problem. The initial $20.5 billion in cuts was predicted to boot 210,000 children from school meals programs that are tied to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the House GOP now plans to cut closer to $40 billion from the program after returning from summer recess.
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