Keep in mind that under Provision 2, the school provides
meals at no cost to all students, so it is key to financial success to have the number of students on paid status not exceed about 10 % during the base year.
When this bill passes, more than 45,000 reduced - price eligible students will have access to school
meals at no cost to the student or family.
Not exact matches
The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a
meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts
to serve breakfast and lunch
at no
cost to all enrolled
students without the burden of collecting household applications.
School nurses can help increase
student nutritional intake through school breakfast participation by encouraging their school (s)
to implement a breakfast after the bell program and
to offer nutritious breakfasts
at no
cost to all
students, particularly in schools or school districts with high concentrations of
students certified for free and reduced - price school
meals.
Long's push
to implement the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)
meal service option district - wide has helped 25,000
students have access
to school
meals at no
cost.
Leah Schmidt, president of the School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs
at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have
to have very few
students eating the free and reduced -
cost meals.
Identified
students are those that are qualified
to receive a
meal at no
cost through Direct Certification, including
students certified as homeless, runaway, migrant, foster, children enrolled in a federally funded Head Start program, and nonapplicant
students approved by the LEA.
This provision allows
students who are categorically deemed
at - risk of hunger
to qualify for no -
cost meals without needing
to complete an application for FRPL.
However, using FRPL - eligibility
to identify low - income
students is rapidly becoming problematic as a result of the Community Eligibility Provision of the federal Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows all
students to receive no -
cost meals if
at least 40 percent of their participating school or district's enrollment is identified as eligible for FRPL via direct certification.
The district can adopt a policy under which the school provides food
at no
cost if the
student is unable
to purchase a
meal or snack.
It's when we give up the
cost of our lunch for one day
to help feed a community of
students at the Kanama Secondary School where Tara lives in Rwanda; many of whom get their only
meal of the day
at school.