This study—authorized by the 2010 Child Nutrition Act—tests innovative strategies to end childhood hunger.
This is the fifth in a series of annual reports that examines administrative error incurred during the local educational agency’s (LEA) approval process of applications for free and reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
This report responds to the legislative requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Under direct certification, children are determined eligible for free school meals without the need for household applications by using data from other means-tested programs.
This is the fourth in a series of annual reports that examines administrative error incurred during the local educational agency’s approval process of applications for free and reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program.