Local counties take top spots on school breakfast program

— have taken the top spots in a school breakfast participation study in maryland. the study awarded a-pluses for counties that had eighty-percent of its low-income students participate in both the national school lunch program and school breakfast program. those four counties on maryland’s eastern shore include — kent, somerset, caroline and dorchester. talbot — earned an “a” — with a seventy-seven percent participation rate. with — wicomico and worcester reporting over sixty-percent each. and — queen anne’s county with fifty-five percent. dorchester county officials say — a lot of their success can be credited to the maryland meals for achievement program. the state-funded program provides breakfast for students in the classroom — free of charge, regardless of a family’s income. 23:36:13 sometimes kids, they wake up late…they run off to get to school, they don’t want to be late. so it’s kind of nice that once they get to school that breakfast is available right in the classrooms so they can just eat it there. they don’t have to stop by the cafeteria or anything like that.” 27 past studies have suggested — students who eat proper meals have higher attendances and higher chances of graduation. coming up