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New Jersey Schools Receive Expanding Breakfast Awards
Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association recently recognized four New Jersey school districts for their efforts to increase student participation in school breakfast. The awards, sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, were offered in conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture/Bureau of Child Nutrition Programs’ expanding breakfast classes held during the 2007-2008 school year.
School districts receiving the awards showed a 25 percent or more increase in breakfast participation from February 2008 to April 2008, compared to the same time in 2007. Other considerations for the awards included improved test scores; reduction in absenteeism, visits to the nurse’s office and tardiness; increased milk consumption; and introduction of the New Look of School Milk at breakfast. Districts used their monetary awards for equipment for the department and as a thank you to staff members for their team efforts to promote a nutritious school breakfast.
Congratulations to the following school foodservice departments for their efforts to step outside the cafeteria and encourage students to start the day with school breakfast.
Grand Prize
Estell Manor City School District, Susan Gaines, FSD
First Place
Woodbury School District, Gisela Campbell, FSD
Second Place
Mount Ephraim Borough School District, Cheryl James, FSD
Third Place
Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District, Colleen Green, FSD