Sentences with phrase «from school meal applications»

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She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

I'm back from summer vacation in time to share some nice news: Houston ISD, the seventh largest district in the country, has announced that it's taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide universal (free) school breakfast and lunch to every student at 166 of its schools, regardless of economic status, and without the need for meal applications or other paperwork.

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.

[6] Community eligibility schools, however, may not collect school meal applications or use funds from the school nutrition account to collect individual income data.

When school districts implement community eligibility, however, they no longer have the individual income data from those meal applications for the students attending community eligibility schools — data that programs outside of the school meal programs often use.

The positive experience of states and school districts that have implemented community eligibility demonstrates that while they can no longer use school meal application data to allocate funds, states and localities should not be dissuaded from adopting community eligibility.

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.

It is critical that states and school districts identify alternatives to data from meal applications so that high - poverty schools that adopt community eligibility to feed more students are not disadvantaged in any other context.

Likewise, it is critical that a desire for data traditionally gathered from meal applications does not stand in the way of districts and schools implementing community eligibility, which can help support educational achievement, reduce hunger, and improve children's nutrition and health.

Meal benefits from the previous school year apply for the first 30 school days of the new school year or until a new application is submitted.

LCFF Alternate Forms In the absence of school meal applications, California's schools will need to gather individual income information from the students to receive full funding from the LCFF.

As opposed to collecting individual applications for free and reduced - price meals, the CEP allows LEAs and schools meeting the eligibility requirements to use information provided from other direct certification programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Temporary Assistance Program for Needy Families (TANF).