FNS Documents & Resources

This is the third in a series of annual reports assessing administrative error associated with the local educational agency’s approval of applications for free and reduced-price school meals. 

SNAP HIP Symposium Panel Members October 16, 2008

The Food and Nutrition Service issued the final rule Fluid Milk Substitutions in the School Nutrition Program  on Sept. 12, 2008, to implement a provision of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004.

The report describes the project goals and strategies, provides a general description of each grantee, and gives a synopsis of project performance. 

These questions and answers provide clarification on the implementation of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provisions in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.

The administrators of the NAEP have asked that we remind school food authorities that they may disclose, without parent/guardian consent, children’s names and eligibility status (whether they are eligible for free meals or free milk or reduced price meals) to persons directly connected with the administration or enforcement of a federal or state education program.

A number of schools nationwide are still having difficulty obtaining the two food safety inspections required by the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. Although FNS realizes that many of the difficulties schools face are beyond their control, we would like to stress that local program operators are responsible for requesting the food safety inspections from the public health department and documenting their efforts.

This final rule implements a legislative provision on milk substitutes that is consistent with current regulations on menu exceptions for students with disabilities and adds requirements for the optional substitution of nondairy beverage for fluid milk for children with medical or special dietary needs in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.

This memorandum is to clarify the relationship between delayed implementation of Provision 2 and use of a child’s prior year’s eligibility status for the first 30 operating days in the new school year (“carryover”).

Hurricane Gustav Response 2008 Evacuee Policy