2000 Minnesota Statutes

     124D.1155 Fast break to learning grants. 

    Subdivision 1.    Establishment.  A grant program is 
 established to ensure that all children have an opportunity to 
 eat a nutritious breakfast each school day and that barriers 
 such as the social stigma of poverty, or inadequate facilities 
 or transportation do not deny student access to nutritious food. 

    Subd. 2.    Eligibility.  An applicant for a grant must 
 be a public or nonpublic elementary school that participates in 
 the federal school breakfast and lunch programs.  The 
 commissioner must give first priority to schools where at least 
 33 percent of the lunches the school served to children during 
 the second preceding school year were provided free or at a 
 reduced price.  The commissioner must give second priority to 
 all other public or nonpublic elementary schools. 

    Subd. 3.    Application process.  To obtain a grant to 
 receive reimbursement for providing breakfasts to all children, 
 a public or nonpublic elementary school must submit an 
 application to the commissioner in the form and manner the 
 commissioner prescribes.  The application must describe how the 
 applicant will encourage all children in the school to 
 participate in the breakfast program.  The applicant also must 
 demonstrate to the commissioner that the applicant will collect 
 a $1 local funding match for every $3 of state funding the 
 applicant receives.  The applicant must raise the local match 
 either by charging student households not eligible for federal 
 free or reduced price meals or by soliciting funds from 
 nonpublic sources.  The applicant can determine the method for 
 charging student households for school breakfast, but must 
 consider the household's ability to pay.  The applicant cannot 
 charge student households for school breakfast so that the total 
 charges exceed the difference between the revenue from federal 
 and state aids and the actual cost of providing the breakfast.  
 The commissioner may require additional information from the 
 applicant. 

    Subd. 4.    Grant awards.  The commissioner shall award 
 grants to the 41 grant recipients under Laws 1997, First Special 
 Session chapter 4, article 6, section 19, and then according to 
 need as determined by the percentage of students enrolled in the 
 school who are eligible for federal free or reduced price meals 
 and that meet the requirements of subdivisions 2 and 3 until 
 funding under this section is expended.  The commissioner shall 
 determine the amount of the grant using average statewide 
 statistics and individual school statistics adjusted for other 
 state and federal reimbursements.  Grant recipients must use the 
 proceeds to provide breakfast to school children every day 
 school is in session. 

    Subd. 5. Repealed, 2000 c 489 art 7 s 16 

    HIST: 1999 c 241 art 7 s 1; 2000 c 489 art 7 s 3