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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
SP 07-2024, CACFP 03-2024 Updated Instructions for the SAE Recovery Process and SAE Financial Status Report
SP 04-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: State Agency Discretion for Repeat Meal Pattern Violations Fiscal Action
SP 03-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: Administrative Review & FSMC Review Cycles
National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Direct Certification with Medicaid
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
Child Nutrition: Program Integrity Final Rule
Initial Implementation Memo: Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Program Integrity
SFSP 10-2023 Initial Site Visits in the Summer Food Service Program
Proposed Rule: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for Schools Webinar
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
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
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
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
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #6 Nationwide Waiver of Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
SP30-2019 Requirements for Students Transferring from Provision to non-Provision Schools
SP17-2019 CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and SY 2019-20 Election Deadline
Unpaid Meal Charges
SP41-2017 2018 Direct Certification Improvement Grant RFA
Integrity Features of a Web-based School Meal Application
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Comment Request - Evaluation of the Direct Certification With Medicaid for Free and Reduced-Price (DCM-F/RP) Meals Demonstrations
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Comment Request: State Agency (NSLP/SNAP) Direct Certification Rate Data Element Report (FNS-834)
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 - State Agency (NSLP/SNAP) Direct Certification Rate Data Element Report (FNS-834)
Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Program Integrity
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Direct Certification Improvement Grant Summaries
SP35-2015 Updated Title I Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
Foster Care Letter
SP08-2015 Updated E-Rate Guidance for Schools Electing Community Eligibility
Page updated: November 20, 2019