Minister of Education Ligia Amada Melo rejected a proposal from PRD presidential candidate Hipólito Mejía to change the content of the breakfast snacks served to public school children. The government serves bread and milk snacks. Hipólito Mejía has said that a month after he is President, he change the public school breakfasts to serve mangú (mashed plantains), batata (sweet potatoes) or yucca with eggs. Minister Melo said that the suggestion is not practical, because the schools do not have facilities to cook or heat meals. She said that an experiment at the start of her tenure when they served eggs had to be discontinued. She said that tubers are served in several public schools in the frontier zone because kitchens were set up for this purpose.
