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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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A Good Start Helps Students Finish First - In Celebration of National School Breakfast Week, March 2 - 6, 2009
FOR the purpose of celebrating National School Breakfast Week by commending the Baltimore City Public Schools CEO and school principals for their efforts to increase free breakfast participation among City students; and pledging to work citywide with City Council District schools to overcome the obstacles to full breakfast participation.
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WHEREAS, Harvard medical researchers and commonsense experience indicate that, when breakfast is offered to every student at no charge in the classroom, the collective and daily “good start” leads to quantifiable increases in student performance, including higher standardized test scores, decreased tardiness, reduced absenteeism, fewer disciplinary referrals, and fewer visits to the school nurse; and
WHEREAS, In line with Councilwoman Agnes Welch’s leadership and the Baltimore City Council’s resolve to reduce childhood obesity in Baltimore City, experts confirm that children who start the day with a good breakfast are less likely to be or become obese; and
WHEREAS, Because of the high rate of poverty among Baltimore’s students, the federal government subsidizes a free breakfast for every single student of the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), regardless of ...
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