Getting breakfast programs running is a challenge because the province has stopped paying program co-ordinators, some of P.E.I.'s larger schools say .
Forty-eight Island schools receive funding from the province to run breakfast programs. For the past number of years, nine of the larger schools in the Eastern School District have received extra money to hire program co-ordinators.
However, this year the committee that oversees the program decided to stop paying the coordinators.
"It was felt that it wasn't really fair to all programs in the province because only a handful of programs were receiving funds for an on-site co-ordinator," said Charmaine Campbell, co-ordinator of the P.E.I. Advisory Council for Breakfast for Learning.
"Right now, it's just going to be reallocated in a different format, so it'll be more equitable and be distributed to all programs across the province."
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