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Resource | Research | Assessing/Improving Operations Direct Verification Pilot Study: First Year Report

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 permits direct verification of school meal applications and requires FNS to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of direct verification (instead of household verification) by school district.

06/28/2007
Resource | Research | Assessing/Improving Operations Report to Congress: USDA's Simplified Summer Food Program 2001-2006

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 required that the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) evaluate the impact of Simplified Summer which now operates in 26 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

05/01/2007
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