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Local Schools Selected for Breakfast Challenge

The challenge gives schools money for increasing the number of school breakfasts served to free-and reduced-price eligible children.

Hunger-Free Minnesota has selected local schools as some of the 40 schools to participate in its School Breakfast Challenge.

The challenge encourages schools to boost the number of school breakfast meals served to free-and reduced-price eligible children. Hunger-Free Minnesota will give schools 10 cents per meal for each additional meal served in the 2013-14 school year compared to the previous year.

The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school district has the following schools participating:

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The Rosemount–Apple Valley–Eagan school district has the following schools participating:

The effort is taking place because there is widespread under-utilization of free and reduced-cost meals from the Minnesota School Breakfast Program. Overall usage is only 40 percent.

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Hunger-Free Minnesota selected 21 schools from the metro area and 19 from greater Minnesota.

 



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