Sentences with phrase «eliminating school meal applications»

Community eligibility has significant potential to expand access to school meals for students from low - income families while reducing administrative burdens by eliminating school meal applications.

Community eligibility allows high - poverty schools to offer school meals at no charge to all students while streamlining school meal program operations, including eliminating school meal applications, which many states and localities have used as the basis for distributing resources to schools and students.

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CEP is designed to ensure access to school meals by students from low - income families and simplify administration of the school meal programs by eliminating the use of applications to collect family income information and the need to track children by eligibility category in the lunchroom.

This simplification eliminates the numerous hours that school administrators spend processing and verifying school meal applications.

For states and localities where universal access is unrealistic, an expansion of the community eligibility program, which allows schools and districts in low - income areas to serve free breakfast and lunch to all students without collecting applications, would be an interim step to consider.44 Making free meals universal would ensure that all students experiencing food insecurity have access to healthy, nutritious meals; end the stigma surrounding school lunch; and eliminate administrative barriers to accessing the program.