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Resource | Technical Assistance School Meals Model Application Materials in Serbian

From this page, you may download the Serbian translation of the Prototype Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals and accompanying materials.

08/16/2016
Resource | Technical Assistance School Meals Model Application Materials in Somali

From this page, you may download the Somali translation of the Prototype Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals and accompanying materials.

08/16/2016
Resource | Technical Assistance School Meals Application Materials in Igbo
08/16/2016
Resource | Policy Memos Ensuring Access to Free and Reduced Price School Meals for Low-Income Students

This guidance provides steps state agencies and school administrators can take to improve access to school meal programs through the application, certification, and verification processes so that all eligible children in NSLP and SBP schools have the opportunity to participate in the school meal programs.

08/10/2016
Resource Food Distribution Program: Value of Donated Foods (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017)

This notice announces the national average value of donated foods or, where applicable, cash in lieu of donated foods, to be provided in school year 2017 (July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017) for each lunch served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and for each lunch and supper served by institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).

08/09/2016
Resource | Policy Memos Ensuring Year-long Eligibility in the School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs

The purpose of this memorandum is to strongly encourage local educational agencies to accept eligibility determinations from a transferring student’s former LEA to minimize disruptions in meal benefits for low-income students and avoid student debt resulting from unpaid meal charges.

08/05/2016
Resource | Technical Assistance School Meals Application Materials in Tigrinya
08/05/2016
Resource | Technical Assistance School Meals Model Application Materials in Vietnamese

From this page, you may download the Vietnamese translation of the Prototype Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals and accompanying materials.

08/05/2016
Resource | Technical Assistance School Meals Application Materials in Yoruba
08/05/2016
Resource | Federal Register Notices National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017)

 This Notice announces the annual adjustments to the “national average payments,” the amount of money the federal government provides states for lunches, afterschool snacks and breakfasts served to children participating in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs; to the “maximum reimbursement rates,” the maximum per lunch rate from federal funds that a state can provide a school food authority for lunches served to children participating in the National School Lunch Program; and to the rate of reimbursement for a half-pint of milk served to non-needy children in a school or institution which participates in the Special Milk Program for Children.

08/05/2016
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