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Date FNS Document# Title
Webinar: Community Eligibility Provision 101
Community Eligibility Provision Fact Sheet
CEP Planning and Implementation Guidance
SP 11-2024 CEP: State Agency Procedures to Ensure Identified Student Percentage Accuracy
SP 10-2024 CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2024-25 Election Deadline
SP 09-2024 Community Eligibility Provision: Guidance and Updated Q&As
SP 08-2024 Community Eligibility Provision: Planning and Implementation Guidance - Updated
Community Eligibility Provision Status of School Districts and Schools by State
Community Eligibility Provision
Community Eligibility Provision Resource Center
Webinar on Final Rule: CEP- Increasing Options for Schools
Community Eligibility Provision Slider Tool
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Programs - CEP Increasing Options for Schools
CEP Final Rule Summary
SP 22-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Implementing the New Minimum Identified Student Percentage
Families/Caregivers
Proposed Rule: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for Schools Webinar
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
FD-152: Discontinuance of the High Security Seal Requirement for USDA Foods Deliveries
Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Programs Community Eligibility Provision - Increasing Options for Schools
SP 10-2023 Updated Title I Guidance for Making Within District Allocations
SP 09-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2023-2024 Election Deadline
SP 08-2023 Free or Low-Cost Internet Services Available to All Households with Kids at Schools Participating in the Community Eligibility Provision
Letter to WIC State Agencies on Unwinding and Impacts of Infant Formula Shortage
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Program Operator
Program Operator
SP 12-2021 Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
USDA Foods Resources
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #6 Nationwide Waiver of Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
How to File a USDA Foods Complaint
SP30-2019 Requirements for Students Transferring from Provision to non-Provision Schools
Guidance and Resources
SP17-2019 CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and SY 2019-20 Election Deadline
Unpaid Meal Charges
Demystifying the USDA Foods Complaints Process Part 3: Results and Resolution
New Horizons in Reporting and Resolving USDA Food Issues in FDPIR
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Demystifying USDA Foods Complaints Part 2: The Saga Continues
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
Comment Request - Food Program Reporting System (FPRS)
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Applying the USDA Foods Complaint Process
Demystifying the USDA Foods Complaint Process Part One
2015 Professional Standards Grants
SP35-2015 Updated Title I Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
Foster Care Letter
Page updated: November 20, 2019