This memorandum provides the total funding amount available to FNS to distribute to state agencies, which is $202.9 million for FY 2021.
All school food authorities participating in the National School Lunch, Commodity School, School Breakfast, and Special Milk Programs must submit a free and reduced price policy statement pursuant to 7 CFR Part 245.
The National School Lunch Program regulations specify the requirements for conducting Administrative Reviews. The documents on this page include the Administrative Review Manual and other documents and tools available for conducting these compliance reviews.
This memorandum and attachments provide guidance on the specific terms and conditions, funding goals, period of performance and timelines for grants to distribute $30 million provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2020 to state agencies to competitively award Equipment Assistance Grants to eligible school food authorities participating in the National School Lunch Program.
This memorandum provides the information needed to conduct the FY 2020 reallocation of SAE funds.
This memorandum provides information on changes to the SAE recovery and reallocation process in fiscal year 2020 and going forward. It is not a request for submissions.
Congress provides that only school food authorities that had a negative balance in the nonprofit school food service account as of Dec. 31, 2019, shall be required to establish prices for paid lunches according to the Paid Lunch Equity provisions in the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, and implemented in National School Lunch Program regulations.
Attached are the Revised Meat/Meat Alternates and Milk charts of the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
Parts of this memorandum have been rescinded by SFSP 01-2019: Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission, Oct. 11, 2018. Rescinded policy has been struck through.
The purpose of this policy memorandum is to provide direction and guidance to SDAs in order to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements, and to make certain that all SFAs receive their planned assistance level and maximize their use of USDA Foods to meet the nutrition standards in the NSLP.