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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Report: Teachers Spend $37 Every Month to Help Feed Hungry Students | NEA Today

Report: Teachers Spend $37 Every Month to Help Feed Hungry Students | NEA Today:





Report: Teachers Spend $37 Every Month to Help Feed Hungry Students
By Tim Walker Two recent reports highlight a sobering fact about the nation’s children as they return to school: too many of them are arriving without access to enough healthy food. According to the 2013 Hunger in our Schools survey by Share Our Strength, seventy-three percent of educators teach students who regularly come to school hungry due to lack of food at home. Half say hunger in the classr
Making Education for All a Priority in the US – Toward a Tipping Point
In July, the Education for All Act of 2013  was introduced in the US House of Representatives. The bill calls for the United States “… to commit sufficient resources in developing countries, including in countries affected or emerging from armed conflict or humanitarian crises…” in order to “lead a global commitment to achieving quality universal basic education in developing countries … [and] equ