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Resource | Forms FNS-828: School Food Authority Paid Lunch Price Report

This form is for reporting SFA paid reimbursable lunch price data by each group of students.

11/05/2015
Resource | Forms FNS-834: State Agency Direct Certification Rate Data Element Report

This annual interagency report collects data elements from the state agencies that administer SNAP and from the state agencies that administer the National School Lunch Program.

11/05/2015
Resource | Forms FNS-742: School Food Authority Verification Collection Report

State agencies must report the information on this form ANNUALLY for each SFA with schools operating the National School Lunch Program and/or the School Breakfast Program . All SFAs, including SFAs with all schools exempt from verification requirements, must complete applicable sections.

11/05/2015
Resource | Forms FNS-777: Financial Status Report
11/05/2015
Resource | Research and Data | Payment Accuracy and Program Integrity CACFP Assessment of Sponsor Tiering Determinations - 2014

The 2014 Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Assessment of Sponsor Tiering Determinations examines the accuracy of the classification of family day care homes (FDCHs) participating in the CACFP. In response to the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act (IPERA) of 2010, the assessment provides estimates of the number of FDCHs in 2014 that were misclassified by sponsoring agencies into the wrong tier, and the resulting erroneous payments for meals and snacks reimbursed at the wrong rate.

10/14/2015
Resource | Research and Data | Food/Nutrient Analysis Diet Quality of American School Children by NSLP Participation Status: Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010

This report uses data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey to provide a comprehensive picture of the nutrient intakes, food choices, and diet quality of American school children, broken out by participation in the National School Lunch Program and income status.

05/05/2015
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations Regional Office Review of Applications (RORA) for School Meals 2014

This is the tenth in a series of annual reports to examine administrative errors incurred during the local educational agency’s (LEA) approval process of household applications for free and reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). This report examines administrative error estimates in student certification for free and reduced-price NSLP meals.

05/04/2015
Resource | Research and Data | Participation Rates Direct Certification in the NSLP Report to Congress: State Implementation Progress, SY 2013-14

This report responds to the requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Direct certification is a process conducted by the states and by local educational agencies to certify eligible children for free meals without the need for household applications. 

05/01/2015
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations Program Error in the NSLP and SBP: Findings from the Second Access, Participation, Eligibility and Certification Study

FNS developed the Access, Participation, Eligibility and Certification (APEC) study series, which collects and analyzes data from a nationally representative sample of schools and school food authorities (SFAs) about every 5 years. APEC allows FNS to develop a national estimate of erroneous payment rates and amounts in three key areas: certification error, meal claiming error and aggregation error.  FNS recently completed APEC II, which collected data in School Year 2012-2013 and this report summarizes those findings.

05/01/2015
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