{"id":3808,"date":"2007-06-06T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2017-11-28T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:04:27","slug":"dont-forget-to-cut-the-state-funded-violins-announcing-each-program-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/dont-forget-to-cut-the-state-funded-violins-announcing-each-program-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget To Cut the State-Funded Violins Announcing Each Program Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i> laments <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/06\/06\/BAGDBQ9Q9L1.DTL\" target=\"_new\">the death of a wasteful tax-funded project<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For just 10 cents a day per child, California public school kids are getting to eat fresh apples, oranges and strawberries along with their Pop-Tarts and doughnuts at school breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s been true for the last two years under the pilot Fresh Start program, designed to steer kids away from obesity and diabetes and toward healthy foods.<\/p>\n<p>But Fresh Start is in jeopardy just as preliminary reports are showing its initial success. In an effort to cover a $366 million funding gap in the education part of the state budget, the Legislature recently cut the $11.1 million that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed to keep Fresh Start going in the next school year and make it permanent.<\/p>\n<p>The cut incensed child nutrition specialists and advocates. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>California has accidentally done the fiscally responsible thing and eliminated a goofball project that steps outside the bounds of the government&#8217;s responsibilities.  Notably, those who received the largesse are upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle laments the death of a wasteful tax-funded project: For just 10 cents a day per child, California public school kids are getting to eat fresh apples, oranges and strawberries along with their Pop-Tarts and doughnuts at school breakfast. At least, that&#8217;s been true for the last two years under the pilot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18044,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/18044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}