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  • DC Students Receive Dinner at School

    10/21/2010 10:40:08 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 39 replies
    fox ^ | Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010, 10:53 PM EDT | AUDREY BARNES
    D.C. joins 13 states which serve three meals a day at school – and to the tune of $5.7 million. Officials here have embraced the program because they realize healthy, well-fed kids learn better. “We're reaching 10,000 kids a day at 99 of our 120 schools," said Anthony Tata, Chief Operating Officer of D.C. Public Schools. That's about 25 percent of the student population. And another big benefit of the after school dinners are that more kids are enrolling in after school programs where they can get some academic help as well. So the dinners are really serving three purposes...