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We have all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The Breakfast in the Classroom program feeds nearly 200,000 students, but the LAUSD school board may vote to eliminate the program.

Members of the Service Employees International Union, the union that represents cafeteria workers, gathered Tuesday outside of Hooper Elementary School on Hooper and East 52nd Street in South LA. They were joined by parents who were on their way to drop their kids off at school, holding signs and banging on drums to raise awareness for breakfast in the classroom. [Read more…]