The committee that oversees funding for school breakfast programs on P.E.I. has decided it can no longer pay for on-site breakfast co-ordinators.
Nine schools in the Eastern School District were given money for paid co-ordinators, while other schools had volunteer positions. Charmaine Campbell, the provincial school nutrition co-ordinator with the P.E.I. Healthy Eating Alliance, told CBC News Tuesday the system wasn't fair. There wasn't enough money to have a paid position for all 49 breakfast programs in the province.
"Our committee that oversees school breakfast programs had been discussing the issue of paid co-ordinators versus non-paid co-ordinators for some time," said Campbell.
"This was the year that the committee made the hard decision and difficult decision that we could no longer provide funding for on-site breakfast program co-ordinators in the Eastern School District."
Campbell said this does not mean there will be less money for the program overall. The money for the paid positions will be redistributed within the breakfast program.
School board officials said they expect all the breakfast programs will run as usual in the fall, even without the paid co-ordinators.
