The CEP allows high - poverty schools to eliminate the administrative burden
of school meal applications and still serve breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students so that they can be fueled and ready to learn.
Other LAs with a different set up for
free school meals applications (it often sits within another department) will need to work together to find common ground for the benefits of our pupils and schools.
It explains and provides resources related to how community eligibility works, how it helps participating schools and families, how to operate
without school meal applications, and how stakeholders can prepare to implement the option when it becomes available in all states for the 2014 - 2015 school year.
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.
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.
For allocating state or local funds to districts or schools, alternative data can be used in lieu of the income data collected
on school meal applications.
The U.S. Departments of Education and Agriculture no longer require data
from school meal applications — or any individual income data — for any of their programs.
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.
Other LAs with a different set up for
free school meals applications (it often sits within another department) will need to work together to find common ground for the benefits of our pupils and schools.
[6] Community eligibility schools, however, may not
collect school meal applications or use funds from the school nutrition account to collect individual income data.
The CEO is the newest federal option to provide all meals at no charge in high - poverty schools, without the need for
school meals applications.
Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting
a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.
Establishing a work group of staff from the school nutrition program and other relevant offices within the state education department can help identify and address any issues that may arise when school districts implement community eligibility and stop collecting
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.
[1] One of the key simplifications of community eligibility is that participating schools no longer collect
school meal applications.
During questions in the Lords following the memo leak, Lord Nash, the minister for the schools system, said that «66 grammar schools do now prioritise free
school meal applications».