School Breakfast --- FINAL SIGN-ON LETTER
Posted almost 7 years ago by Lori Kelley
** Pa. Governor Tom Wolf: www.c-span.org/video/?c4661952/gov-tom-wolf-school-breakfast“Ask any teacher and they will tell you that food is a basic school supply like paper, books, and pencils. When kids struggle with hunger, it is hard for them to learn and it is harder for teachers to teach. I just announced a proposal to appropriate $2 million for school breakfasts at our schools in Pennsylvania. And that, if successful, will leverage millions of federal dollars. That is a smart investment that will help to make our education system better.”** Pa. First Lady Frances Wolf: www.c-span.org/video/?c4661938/school-breakfast-first-lady-frances-wolf“One of the things I wanted to talk about was generating support in Pennsylvania for this program. … But we are also looking to go to each of our communities to share this [breakfast] message. … From my place, I am trying to generate support and also go out to schools and other institutions to talk about the importance of [breakfast]. It is something that I think is very, very important …”