From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 4, 1989:

A breakfast program was to have a trial run at four Lawrence schools this fall. School board members had voted in May to try the program after a feasibility study had shown it could work in the Lawrence district. The program, which was to be introduced at East Heights, Kennedy, New York and Woodlawn schools, had been initially requested by a parent group, Parents in Partnership with Schools (PIPS). Parents representing PIPS had told school board members that some children in the schools seemed hungry and listless and that studies had shown a correlation between breakfast programs and higher achievement test scores. Breakfasts were to be served during the 30 minutes just before the start of school; each school was to work out its own supervision schedule with food service workers, teachers, or a combination of the two.