Eliminating Reduced-Price School Meals: The Vermont Experience
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1 Eliminating Reduced-Price School Meals: The Vermont Experience Doug Davis, SNS Director, Burlington School Food Project Past President, SNA-VT Anore Horton, MAT Child Nutrition Advocacy Manager, Hunger Free Vermont Chair, Legislation & Policy Committee, SNA-VT
2 What is the Problem with Charging for Reduced-Price School Meals? Children in this category are likely experiencing hunger at home Yet they are least likely to participate in school meals, even enrolled Most likely to experience shame in the cafeteria In order for their children to eat school meals, families often end up in debt to the meal program
3 Our Overall Message: Vermont Children are Hungry
4 Our Overall Message: Vermont Families are Struggling
5 Our Overall Message: We Know This Works
6 A Marathon, not a Sprint: VT Reduced-Price Elimination Timeline (2 legislative sessions) Hunger Free Vermont pushes legislation to have the State of Vermont cover the 30 student cost of reduced-price breakfast Partners with SNA-VT to gather testimony & to advocate for the bill August 2008: No more reduced-price school breakfast in VT! 2009 Legislative Session Recession-induced budget crisis makes it impossible to go for lunch Passed a no-cost Child Omnibus Bill to keep momentum going (all 21 st Century grant recipients must use CN programs to provide meals; all schools over 50% that run summer school must use SFSP or SSO to provide meals) 2010 Legislative Session Budget crisis continues Continue no-cost strategy by passing a change in the language of State law that defines teen parents getting services at Parent-Child Centers as enrolled students so that they can receive meals through NSLP
7 Continued: VT Reduced-Price Elimination Timeline It took 3 legislative sessions ( ) 2011 Session: Legislation introduced to have the State of Vermont cover the 40 student cost of reduced-price school lunch dies in the Education Committees 2012 Session: Legislation re-introduced; House Education Committee unanimously supports, but won t forward to Appropriations because there is no source of funding attached 2013 Session: Legislation re-introduced in both House and Senate; Education Committees approve it and send it to Appropriations Committees; Appropriations Committees approve it and send it to the floor, House and Senate both pass the bill! What changed? The Governor also put the provision in the budget he sent to the legislature Legislators would have had to vote to remove funding for hungry children from the budget.
8 Creating a Coalition Who were the allies in VT? Hunger Free Vermont SNA-VT School nutrition professionals Farm to School movement Farmers Professional Organizations (principals, superintendents, school boards, teachers union) Key legislators on key committees (Ed & Aprops) Commissioner of Education & CNP staff Governor s Policy Advisor and then the Governor
9 What are the Politics? Identify & remove any barrier to each ally s support: Professional Associations did not want the money to come out of the education budget when they were already facing multiple years of budget cuts Legislators from all political parties wanted assurance of the value of the investment Opposing legislators especially responded to evidence that spending this money would lead to savings and growth elsewhere: Federal money that state money will leverage Reduce local deficits Strengthen local agricultural economies
10 Our Message for Schools
11 Our Message for Vermont s Economy This bill is good for Vermont farms because additional reimbursement will expand each school s ability to purchase local Vermont foods for their meal programs This bill is good for Town budgets because it will reduce school meal program debts that towns must ultimately repay
12 Our Message for Opposing Legislators
13 Successful Strategies Before the Session Collect data on the increased participation and revenues realized with the elimination of reducedprice breakfast Collect data from districts that had already eliminated reduced-price lunch on their own Find champions on key committees & in state agencies; ask them to help you design your strategy figure out what they need out of this Develop evidence-based materials that show what will happen
14 Successful Strategies: Education Com. Small group of students went without breakfast & testified before the Education Committees about their experiences trying to learn (2008) Organized SFS Directors to personally contact their legislators Collected testimony from SFS Directors and parents from the towns of Committee members Support from Agency of Education, NEA, School Boards Association
15 Sample Testimony
16 Successful Strategies: Appropriations Com. Data-driven arguments Advocacy day with allies (every year) Survey Monkey petition signatures organized by Town Endorsements from other unions and Vermont businesses big posters with their logos
17 Passing the Bill is Just the Beginning: Promote the Change! Articles in local papers, school & organization newsletters Talking Points How to explain the change to parents, school boards, principals, etc. Promotional materials for schools Web-ready materials for school websites
18 Handout to Accompany Application for Families
19 6 Months Later Statewide, a 6% increase in the enrollment of reduced-price eligible students in school meal programs with up to a 40% increase in some districts Participation increases as high as 79% in some districts Elevated SNA-VT to the level of other schoolrelated professional organizations, and laid the foundation for ongoing relationships
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