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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
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
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
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 #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
Professional Standards
Tools for Schools: Focusing on Smart Snacks
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
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Final Rule: Local School Wellness Policy Implementation Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010; Approval of Information Collection Request
Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Report to Congress: State Implementation Progress, SY 2014-15
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
School Nutrition Program Operations Study - SY 2012-13
Final Rule: Administrative Reviews in the School Nutrition Programs
Final Rule: National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
SP48 CACFP16 SFSP16-2016 Using Federal Funds to Support FoodCorps Service Members
SP46-2016 Unpaid Meal Charges: Local Meal Charge Policies
Comment Request - Food Program Reporting System (FPRS)
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Final Rule: CACFP Meal Pattern Revisions Related to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Program Integrity
SP29-2016 Reporting Instructions for Form FNS-874: Local Educational Agency Second Review of Applications
HHFKA Implementation Research Brief Series
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Direct Certification Improvement Grant Summaries
Page updated: November 20, 2019