Colorado District Encourages Students To Eat By Providing Free Meals, Breakfast In Class

USA Today (9/14, Moore) reports that even though "the number of hungry children in the US is rising, fewer than half of the kids who could be eating a free or low-cost breakfast at school are getting one." In Pueblo, Colorado, however, "school officials offer free breakfast to all children regardless of income, so no one is embarrassed to be eating it." And in most Pueblo schools, "breakfast is served right in the classrooms." USA Today adds that "76 percent of Pueblo's needy kids eat school breakfast," a rate higher than any state and most large cities. Now other states and advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to implement similar programs nationwide.