{"id":11516,"date":"2020-02-05T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/georgia\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:47:12","slug":"new-report-shows-breakfast-after-the-bell-can-significantly-reduce-chronic-absenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/georgia\/2020\/02\/05\/new-report-shows-breakfast-after-the-bell-can-significantly-reduce-chronic-absenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Shows Breakfast After the Bell Can Significantly Reduce Chronic Absenteeism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offering breakfast as part of the school day can significantly reduce chronic absenteeism according to a new report conducted by the University of California Santa Barbara on behalf of No Kid Hungry. This research shows that when schools adopt a \u2018Breakfast After the Bell\u2019 program, they can potentially see chronic absenteeism rates drop significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8 million students a year are considered \u201cchronically absent,\u201d meaning they miss at least three weeks of school per year. School officials around the nation are focused on finding ways to reduce this number. This original research,\u00a0 found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serving breakfast as part of the school day can reduce chronic absenteeism by an average of 6 percentage points.<\/li>\n<li>For context, holding all other factors constant, a school where 22% of students are chronically absent (the average in the schools studied) could see that drop to 16% after implementing Breakfast After the Bell.<\/li>\n<li>And while the focus of the study was absenteeism, exploratory analysis also found that Breakfast After the Bell led to improvements in reading achievement and \u201cinternalizing behaviors,\u201d such as anxiety, loneliness and sadness among students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/bestpractices.nokidhungry.org\/resource\/study-chronic-absenteeism-and-breakfast-after-bell\">micro-report<\/a> to learn more about the findings and how it can impact your work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offering breakfast as part of the school day can significantly reduce chronic absenteeism according to a new report conducted by the University of California Santa Barbara on behalf of No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breakfast"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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