On Friday, October 27, 2006, Roosevelt Elementary became the last of San Leandro's elementary schools to offer a breakfast program to its students. Mayor Shelia Young and City Council Members OB Badger and Tony Santos joined me as we sampled the assortment of breakfast foods available to students. Superintendent Christine Lim, Roosevelt Principal Susan Guerrero, and Maintenance & Construction Supervisor Greg Dyer were among the school personnel who were also on hand to commemorate the start of the breakfast program.
Some of the breakfast foods available included fresh grapes, packaged apple slices, Kikkoman Pearl soy milk, Upstate Farms onfat yogurt, whole grain breads, peanut butter, packaged peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, V8 V-Fusion drinks, Pepperidge Farms baked crackers and graham crackers, Azar Carnival Crunch, whole grain sausage rolls, and packaged muffins.
The children who sampled the breakfast foods were also thrilled by a visit from a person in a "Tony the Tiger" costume.
The breakast and lunch programs at San Leandro's schools are funded largely by the federal government. At some schools, participation in the free and reduced lunch program exceeds 50% while participation in the freee and reduced breakfast program is closer to 20%. One of my goals as member of the School Board will be to increase participation in the free and reduced breakfast program. No child at San Leandro schools should go hungry.
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