To be equipped for success in the classroom, students need to fuel their minds with healthy, balanced meals each day. The Community Eligibility Provision is a game-changing option that enables high poverty schools to serve nutritious breakfasts and lunches to all students at no cost. Under the provision, school meal applications are eliminated resulting in reduced administrative burden and cost savings for schools. Furthermore, the school culture is transformed allowing all students to enjoy a free, healthy meal without feeling stigmatized.

Now is the time for interested schools to begin evaluating if community eligibility is a good fit.

Join #FoodFri this Friday, May 1st at 1pm ET as we chat with Breakfast for Learning Education Alliance and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and learn more about community eligibility, its benefits and how you can help spread the word so that students can get the nutritious meals they need to succeed in the classroom.

Spread the word and invite a friend or two! Together, we can ensure all students receive nutritious breakfasts and lunches!

More about our #FoodFri Featured Panelist(s):

The Breakfast for Learning Education Alliance’s main focus is to inform its members, affiliates and networks about the important educational benefits of school breakfast and to promote the broader implementation of proven strategies to increase school breakfast participation, such as Breakfast in the Classroom. Current members of the alliance include: The Ed Trust, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of School Board Educators, National Parent Teacher Association, National Association of Elementary School Principals, Nation Education Association Health Information Network, AASA The Superintendents Association and the Food Research and Action Center.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that pursues federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality and to restore fiscal responsibility in equitable and effective ways.

To join and follow the conversation on Twitter use the #FoodFri Hashtag in each tweet.

You can also follow the chat on Twubs.com/FoodFri. Twubs allows you to follow MomsRising’s registered hashtags by creating an account. Below I have noted the steps.

1. Create an account using an email or your Twitter account.
2. Enter the desired hashtag, #FoodFri, #WellnessWed or #EcoTipTue, in the search box found at the top of the page. Click Enter. A new page will open with the desired chat.
3. Find the “Join This Twub” button found on the right-hand side bar and join the group.
4. Adjust the speed of the conversation to your liking. Options are: Fast, Medium, Slow, Slower, or Slowest.
5. Introduce yourself and join the conversation, by entering your comment, tips, or questions in the “Tweet to #FoodFri as [YourName] box”
6. Or, respond to a specific tweet by hovering over the right-hand side of the individual’s tweet and selecting one of the icons.