{"id":504817,"date":"2026-10-23T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504817\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:44:20","slug":"breakfast-served-in-classroom-in-fullerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504817\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast served in classroom in Fullerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Breakfast is now part of the morning routine inside classrooms at Pacific Drive Elementary School, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullertonsd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fullerton School District<\/a> has expanded its Breakfast in the Classroom initiative to a third campus for the 2026-27 school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The free breakfast program serves about 600 students on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three schools identified are all Title I within the district and serve a high percentage of low-income families and students who may have a greater need for access to nutritious meals. The expansion is thanks to a grant from the nonprofit No Kid Hungry. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the district, the grant helps pay for things such as coolers, storage,and other logistics related supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Based on data submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/ds\/ad\/filessp.asp\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/ds\/ad\/filessp.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Department of Education<\/a>, the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced meals at Pacific Drive is 73.6%.<\/p>\n<p>At the other two schools in the district that are part of the Breakfast in the Classroom program, Commonwealth and Richman elementary schools, about 4 out of every 5 students qualify.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2025-26 school year, FSD Nutrition Services served approximately 1.9 million breakfasts, lunches, suppers and snacks, followed by more than 50,000 meals during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Breakfast is now part of the morning routine inside classrooms at Pacific Drive Elementary School,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,16493,7,15,1570,31533,68504,5999],"class_list":["post-504817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-app-education","tag-california","tag-education","tag-health","tag-human-interest","tag-jo-kwon","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}