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Community Eligibility
Making High-Poverty Schools Hunger Free
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National Implementation:
Overview
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Deadline extension increased elections
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Strong uptake among eligible school
districts
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Positive impacts on student participation
in lunch & breakfast
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National Implementation:
District Size (# students)
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National Implementation:
Progress Continues
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Presentations at National meetings
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Webinar series
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CEP Manual
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Implementing rule
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Zoë Neuberger
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
How Widespread is Community Eligibility?
o Adopted by nearly 14,000 schools serving 6.4 million
students across more than 2,000 school districts
o This represents roughly
• 1 in 7 LEAs
• 1 in 10 schools
• 1 in 9 students
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What Share of Eligible Entities Adopted CEP?
We considered three measures:
• What share of eligible LEAs adopted CEP?
(considering LEAs that could adopt it for any school,
not just district-wide)
• What share of eligible schools adopted CEP?
• What share of eligible schools with ISPs of 60% or
higher adopted CEP?
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Wide State Variation in the
Share of Eligible Entities that Adopted CEP
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Percentage of Eligible Schools Adopting CEP
Percentage of Eligible Schools Adopting CEP
Percentage of Schools with ISP of
60% or Higher Adopting CEP
Todd Stephenson
U.S. Dept. of Education
 Title
I & CEP
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Zoë Neuberger
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Guiding Principles
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Participating in CEP should not disadvantage highpoverty schools or low-income children with regard to
education funding or services
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Interest in data from school meal applications should not
stand in the way of making it easier for low-income
children to get nutritious meals they need at school
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Alternate Approaches to School Meals Data for
Allocating State Education Funds
Approaches
Examples
Use the percentage of meals for which free meals can be claimed TX
under CEP
Apply the percentage of students approved for free or reduced
price meals in the year prior to CEP to current enrollment
LA
Collect individual income data every four years
CA
Collect individual income data every year
WA
Developed a measure that uses SNAP, TANF, foster care,
homelessness, and age data instead of school meal application
data
DC
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Provide Translations
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Do Not Ask about a Social Security Number
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Ask for Income Range
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Ask for Total Household Size and Income
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Crystal Weedall FitzSimons
Food Research & Action Center
 Outreach
Strategies
 School
Breakfast Program
Expansion
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Sarah White
Tennessee Dept. of Education
 Successful
Implementation
Strategies
 Alternate
Income Form
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Heidi Dupuis
Oregon Department of Education
Question 1: Is my ISP high
enough to make CEP worth it?
Compare
• CEP Free Claiming Percentage
• Current Free and Reduced
Participation Percentage
CEP > Current
Go For It!
Calculation
Standard
CEP
Free Lunches = 4875
 Reduced Lunches = 576
 Sum F & R = 5451
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Total Lunches = 6741
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Free and Reduced % =
80%
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ISP = 42.25
Multiplier = 1.6
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Free Claiming % = 67.6
Question 2: How many more
students will participate?
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Know the “Gap” by benefit category
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Gap =
Meals served
(Eligible Students x service days)
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Example:
Free and Reduced – 5461/(381 x 20) = 71.6%
Paid – 1290/(311 x 20) = 20%
Question 3: Will there be enough
revenue to support meals at
non-charge to all students?
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Use the USDA calculators
Question 4: What to do with all
additional revenue from Free Meal
reimbursements?
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Financial Stability
 Indirect Costs - Know the indirect cost pool
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Meal Quality
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Assess costumer perception
Measure current state
Make the change
Measure again
Question 5: What if the
reimbursements won’t cover the
program costs?
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Savings from not having meal benefit
determinations
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Add an Afterschool Supper Program
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Benefit of public perception
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Support from non-federal funds
Question 6: What are the impacts on
other programs in the organization?
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Title 1 In-district Allocations
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E-rate
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Academic achievement/assessment
measures
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State funding
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Local fee reductions
Resources
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USDA CEP website:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/communityeligibility-provision
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CBPP website:
http://www.cbpp.org/research/index.cfm?fa=topic&id=112
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FRAC website:
http://frac.org/federal-foodnutrition-programs/nationalschool-lunch-program/community-eligibility/
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Questions?
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