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ResetResource | Federal Register Documents
    Final Rule: Child Nutrition Programs - CEP Increasing Options for Schools
        This final rule amends the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) regulations by lowering the minimum identified student percentage (ISP) from 40 percent to 25 percent.
      09/26/2023
    Resource | Federal Register Documents
    Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Programs Community Eligibility Provision - Increasing Options for Schools
        This rulemaking proposes to expand access to the Community Eligibility Provision by lowering the minimum identified student percentage participation threshold from 40 percent to 25 percent, which would give states and schools greater flexibility to choose to invest non-federal funds to offer no-cost meals to all enrolled students.
      03/23/2023
    Resource | Final  Rule
    Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
        This final rule establishes requirements for state agencies, local educational agencies, and schools operating the Community Eligibility Provision, a reimbursement option that allows the service of school meals to all children at no-cost in high poverty schools without collecting household applications.
      07/29/2016
    Resource | Comment Request
    Comment Request - Food Program Reporting System (FPRS)
        This legislation directs USDA to carry out annual national performance assessments of the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Programs.
      06/27/2016
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    Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
        The CEP Characteristics Study will include surveys of nationally representative samples of participating and eligible non-participating LEAs to obtain updated information on the characteristics of participating and non-participating districts and schools.
      06/25/2016
    Resource | Comment Request
    Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
        In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection. This is a new collection for the Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study.
      01/27/2016
    Resource | Proposed Rule
    Proposed Rule: NSLP and SBP Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
        This rule proposes to amend the eligibility regulations for free and reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program to codify the statutory provision that establishes the community eligibility provision, a reimbursement option for eligible local educational agencies and schools that wish to offer free school meals to all children in high poverty schools without collecting household applications.
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