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Date FNS Document# Title
Webinar: Community Eligibility Provision 101
Community Eligibility Provision Fact Sheet
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
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 Resource Center
Webinar on Final Rule: CEP- Increasing Options for Schools
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
Translated Applications
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Proposed Updates to the School Nutrition Standards
Proposed Rule: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for Schools Webinar
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
Extension of Comment Period - CNP Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 DGAs
Whole Grains
Sodium
Milk
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
School Meals Standards: 2023 Proposed Rule Stakeholder Briefing
The Road Ahead: Taking School Meals to the Next Level
School Meal Standards Comparison Chart
Proposed Rule for School Meal Standards
Strengthening School Meals for Healthier Kids
Proposed Implementation Timeline for Updating the School Meal Standards
SP 02-2023 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement Rates for the School Breakfast Program and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2023-24
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
School Meals Application Materials in French
SP 11-2022 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement for the SBP and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the NSLP in SY 2022-23 and 2023-24
Nutrition Standards for School Meals
Program Operator
SP 12-2021 Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #64 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Area Eligibility for Closed Enrolled Sites in the SFSP and the NSLP Seamless Summer Option – Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #60 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
CN - Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #52 CN: Extend Area Eligibility Waivers Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #32 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers through August 31, 2020
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Professional Standards
Tools for Schools: Focusing on Smart Snacks
Page updated: November 20, 2019