O'Malley Wants Funding Increase for School Breakfast Program
The program, Maryland Meals for Achievement, provides students at 271 schools with breakfast at their desks.
By Amber Larkins, Capital News Service Gov. Martin O’Malley wants to end childhood hunger in the United States one state at a time, beginning with Maryland. On Wednesday, at a breakfast event at Eastport Elementary School, O’Malley said he’s included $1.8 million in his proposed budget towards expanding Maryland Meals for Achievement, a program that feeds breakfast to students. “There’s no such thing as a spare Marylander, a spare American, a spare child,” O’Malley said. “Our children deserve the ability to grow.” Of Maryland’s 1,441 schools, 271 participate in Maryland Meals for Achievement, a program administered by the Maryland State Department of Education which seeks to increase school breakfast participation by supplying students …
