Bright Start is a Section 529 College Savings Program created to help you save for college.The Program offers special tax advantages, flexibility and professional management. Earnings and qualified withdrawals are free from federal income taxes. If you are an Illinois resident, you will receive additional state tax benefits, including the ability to deduct your contributions from your Illinois state taxable income.
The Outlook newsletter is published ten times per year, August through May, for those participating in School Nutrition Programs. In this issue: The Child Nutrition and Women, Infants, and Children Reauthorization Act of 2004 Impact on School-Based Child Nutrition Program Sponsors; It Is Time to Place Commodity Orders for School Year 2006; Important Due Dates!; Action for Healthy Kids; Breakfast Grant Opportunity Update; Requesting Parent Input on Survey of School Breakfast Programs; National School Breakfast Week 2005; Celebrate National Nutrition Month March 2005; Questions and Answers; The One-Minute Monitor; Illinois School Food Service Associations 55th Annual Conference; What to Do When Your Freezer or Refrigerator Fails; Interactive Participation Map Posted on Website; New Dietary Guidelines Expected in January; Current Topics in Nutrition-University of Illinois TeleNet System; Illinois Zero Waste Schools Program; Food and Nutrition Services Connections Conference this September; Datesavers