Mixed Messages: Gov. Quinn Backs Breakfast While Cutting School Meals Funding
By: Christie Nicks
Updated: March 20, 2013
Governor Quinn said Wednesday that the first meal of the day keeps kids focused in the classroom. But the event comes after he's proposed some steep cuts to school nutrition. The governor's budget calls for $400 million in cuts to education.
Out of education cuts comes $5 million from free school breakfast and lunch programs.
Governor Quinn shifted the blame saying, "Obviously our pension challenges. Our foremost fiscal challenge in Illinois. It's squeezing out money in the classroom."
The General Assembly has until July 1 to come up with a budget.
