Senator Kohl and the State Superintendent Support School Breakfast Expansion
Senator Kohl has provided five federal grants specific to Wisconsin to expand the School Breakfast Program. The first three grants totaled $2 million dollars and resulted in 247 school buildings implementing a breakfast program. This provided school breakfast access to 100,902 students.
The fourth Kohl grant was directed to UW Extension in the amount of $858,902. Extension used $160,000 of the grant to provide research-based information, education, outreach and support to county-based efforts to expand the breakfast program. DPI awarded $644,430 to schools to expand the breakfast program. Forty percent of the funds were awarded to implement new breakfast programs in 49 buildings with an enrollment of 19,472. Sixty percent of the funds were awarded to increase school breakfast participation in 105 existing school breakfast buildings with an enrollment of 42,467. This means the fourth year of Kohl funding positively impacted 154 buildings with an enrollment of 61,939.
The fifth Kohl grant was also directed to UW Extension in the amount of $902,607. Extension maintained $166,379 for continuation of activities initiated with the previous year’s funding. DPI awarded $678,654 of which 40% was targeted to start up breakfast programs in 63 schools with an enrollment of 24,678. Sixty percent of the funds were directed to improve existing breakfast participation in 126 schools with an enrollment of 60,778. This means the fifth year impacted 189 schools with an enrollment of 85,456.
NEW BUILDINGS |
ENROLLMENT |
IMPROVEMENT BUILDINGS |
ENROLLMENT |
3 years |
247 |
100,902 |
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4th year |
49 |
19,472 |
105 |
42,467 |
5th year |
63 |
24,678 |
126 |
60,778 |
TOTAL |
359 |
145,052 |
231 |
103,245 |
The State Superintendent included two breakfast initiatives in the 2005-07 biennial budget request. First, the department requested $500,100 GPR in FY06 and $830,100 GPR in FY07 to increase the reimbursement rate from 10 cents to 15 cents per breakfast served by public and private schools. This was included in the Governor’s budget, but not funded.
Secondly, the department requested $1,200,000 GPR annually in FY06 and FY07 to create a new grant program to pay the 30 cents charged to each student for reduced-price breakfast, thus allowing the student to eat a free breakfast. This was not included in the Governor’s budget.
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