Dear Lucas,
I’m writing with an update on our campaign to get 825,000
kids in New York City breakfast at school.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been pushing Mayor Bill de Blasio to expand breakfast for New York City students . This week, our campaign received critical validation when the New York Times editorial board endorsed this effort. The editorial reads, in part:
“There is no good reason for New York to have fallen behind cities like Newark, a poor city that has a model breakfast program reaching nearly all its children, and Los Angeles, which is in the third year of rolling out its universal breakfast-in-the-classroom program, now the largest in the country...No child should be learning on an empty stomach.”
We know this editorial will be read inside City Hall, and across the nation.
Will you help by signing our petition encouraging the Mayor to expand breakfast? We have a goal for 20,000 signatures this month — you can help us get there .
Thank you for standing up for New York City kids,
Megan Cryan
Director, No Kid Hungry NYC