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ResetResource | Policy Memos
    CEP: State Agency Procedures to Ensure Identified Student Percentage Accuracy
        The purpose of this memorandum is to update prior guidance to reflect changes made to the Community Eligibility Provision due to the Final Rule, Child Nutrition Programs: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for Schools (FR 65778), effective on Oct. 26, 2023. This final rule amended CEP regulations by lowering the minimum identified student percentage to elect CEP from 40 percent to 25 percent.
          SP 11-2024
    02/12/2024
    Resource | Policy Memos
    CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2024-25 Election Deadline
        This memorandum provides a reminder of the annual Community Eligibility Provision notification and publication requirements, including the changes made by the Final Rule, Child Nutrition Programs: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for Schools. This memorandum also reminds state agencies that the statutory election deadline for schools to elect CEP for school year 2024-25 is June 30, 2024.
          SP 10-2024
    02/12/2024
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Community Eligibility Provision: Guidance and Updated Q&As
        This memorandum provides new guidance and questions and answers to address changes made by the CEP final rule. Additionally, this memorandum provides clarification on guidance related to CEP. The attached Q&As supersede SP 54-2016, Community Eligibility Provision: Guidance and Updated Q&As.
          SP 09-2024
    02/12/2024
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Community Eligibility Provision: Planning and Implementation Guidance - Updated
        Attached is the third edition of *Community Eligibility Provision: Planning and Implementation Guidance*. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) meal service option that allows schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) in high poverty areas to offer meals at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications.
          SP 08-2024
    02/12/2024
    Resource | Policy
    Community Eligibility Provision: Implementing the New Minimum Identified Student Percentage
        This guidance applies to state agencies and local educational agencies administering the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. This guidance provides information on the final rule, Child Nutrition Programs: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for School.
          SP 22-2023
    09/26/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Updated Title I Guidance for Making Within District Allocations
        The purpose of this memo is to share updated guidance from the U.S. Department of Education for making within-district Title I allocations under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
          SP 10-2023
    03/22/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Community Eligibility Provision: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2023-2024 Election Deadline
        This memorandum provides a reminder of the annual Community Eligibility Provision notification and publication requirements. This memorandum also reminds state agencies that the statutory election deadline for local educational agencies to elect CEP for school year 2023-24 is June 30, 2023.
          SP 09-2023
    03/22/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Free or Low-Cost Internet Services Available to All Households with Kids at Schools Participating in the Community Eligibility Provision
        This guidance applies to state agencies and school food authorities administering the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. This guidance provides a reminder of the Affordable Connectivity Program.
          SP 08-2023
    03/14/2023
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0061
    Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
        Households with a child  approved to receive free or reduced price meals under the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year are eligible for the Federal Communication Commission’s Emergency Broadband Benefit. EBB is a federal program to help eligible families pay for internet service during the pandemic.
          SP 12-2021
    05/19/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0030
    Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
        FNS is establishing a targeted waiver, for all states and local educational agencies, to extend statutory and regulatory deadlines relating to Community Eligibility Provision reporting and election during the public health emergency due to COVID–19.
          COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82
    03/26/2021

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