Who started food in schools?
A reader pointed out this 2007 press release: National Party Leader John Key says he is shocked and appalled that senior Labour Minister Steve Maharey has described a plan to feed children in our...
View ArticleThe Press on food in schools
The Press editorial: The idea of providing breakfast and lunch for poor children in schools has a superficial appeal. The thought that any child should be going to school hungry is an appalling one,...
View ArticleDunne on food in schools
Pete George has an e-mail from Peter Dunne on why he is not backing the food in schools bill: I fully understand what is intended by this essentially laudable proposals, but I think it is fundamentally...
View ArticleFood in schools
Eric Crampton blogs: A few months ago, Social Service Providers Aotearoa asked me to review the literature on school breakfast programmes and provide an assessment of whether public funding of school...
View ArticleFood in Schools
Stuff reports: Poor participation in food programmes at low-decile schools is an issue that needs sorting before the Government launches Food in Schools, says Prime Minister John Key. The programme,...
View ArticleThe KickStart Breakfast programme
Paula Bennett has announced: Social Development Minister Paula Bennett believes the Government has struck the right balance by supporting the KickStart Breakfast expansion. “This is a genuine...
View ArticleThe cost of breakfast
Stuff reports; It can cost parents less than 50 cents a day to give their child breakfast, but principals say most families who send their children to school hungry cannot afford to feed them. Really....
View ArticleA reader on Food in Schools
A “working bloke from Christchurch” e-mails: It all sounds very well and good in principle for the kids doesn’t it? I have no problem in ensuring children in lower decile schools have food in their...
View ArticleShearer gets it – partially
David Shearer writes in the Herald: My research took me to a wonderful school, Owairaka District School, where 8-year-old students served me a lunch of vegetarian pizza from their own pizza oven, salad...
View ArticleThe stupidity of free school lunches in every decile 1 to 4 school
The Green policy to provide free (ie taxpayer funded) school lunches to all decile 1 to 4 primary schools is a woefully bad use of taxpayer money – even if one accepted that it is the state’s role to...
View ArticleIf schools become meal providers, what happens at holidays?
An interesting comment at Whale Oil: As I was eating crayfish last night I was wondering who is feeding all those 10,000s of starving kids we keep hearing about who are living in poverty over this xmas...
View ArticleTurei claimed up to 90% of kids in schools go hungry
In Parliament yesterday: Metiria Turei : Will the Prime Minister vote for the “Feed the Kids Bill ” in Parliament next week, so that all political parties can work with experts to develop the best...
View ArticleGreen bill to replace parents defeated
The Herald reports: A bill in her name, originally known as Hone Harawira’s “feed the kids” bill was defeated in Parliament this evening, by 59 votes to 61 at its first reading. She inherited the bill...
View ArticleFood in Schools
Stuff reports: Minister of Local Government Paula Bennett says she expects parents to send their children to school with lunch. National, ACT and United Future parties have voted down the Feed the Kids...
View ArticleWho started food in schools?
A reader pointed out this 2007 press release: National Party Leader John Key says he is shocked and appalled that senior Labour Minister Steve Maharey has described a plan to feed children in our...
View ArticleThe Press on food in schools
The Press editorial: The idea of providing breakfast and lunch for poor children in schools has a superficial appeal. The thought that any child should be going to school hungry is an appalling one,...
View ArticleDunne on food in schools
Pete George has an e-mail from Peter Dunne on why he is not backing the food in schools bill: I fully understand what is intended by this essentially laudable proposals, but I think it is fundamentally...
View ArticleFood in schools
Eric Crampton blogs: A few months ago, Social Service Providers Aotearoa asked me to review the literature on school breakfast programmes and provide an assessment of whether public funding of school...
View ArticleFood in Schools
Stuff reports: Poor participation in food programmes at low-decile schools is an issue that needs sorting before the Government launches Food in Schools, says Prime Minister John Key. The programme,...
View ArticleThe KickStart Breakfast programme
Paula Bennett has announced: Social Development Minister Paula Bennett believes the Government has struck the right balance by supporting the KickStart Breakfast expansion. “This is a genuine...
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