Annual
Notification of District-wide Eligibility for the Community Eligibility
Provision for School Year 2018-19
The
Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows eligible districts and/or schools
with a high percentage of students from low-income households to provide school
lunches and breakfasts at no charge to all students, and simplify meal
counting and claiming procedures.
To
be eligible, SFAs and/or schools must have a minimum Identified Student
Percentage (ISP) of 40 percent on April 1.
The
ISP equals the number of identified students in a site/group of sites divided
by the number of students enrolled in that site/group of sites.
Identified
students include:
- Directly certified students.
- Students who live in the same household of directly certified students.
- Homeless, migrant or runaway students.
- Head Start/Even Start/Early Start participants.
- Recipients of the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR).
Enrolled
students are those who have access to either breakfast or lunch at the site(s).
2018-19 School Food Authority Proxy Data for the Community Eligibility Provision – A list showing an estimated districtwide ISP for eligible and near eligible school food authorities (SFA) – is now available on the CEP webpage. RCCIs are not
eligible to participate on CEP. However, a day treatment program site that is
operated by an RCCI is eligible to participate. The data is sorted by SFA
sponsor number.
A
list showing estimated site/school level ISPs will be available on the
Minnesota Department of Education’s website by May 1.
SFAs/sites interested in CEP must determine the
April 1 ISP of the site/group of sites wanting to participate and must consider
other factors before applying for this provision. View information about CEP on
the Minnesota Department of
Education website.
SFAs can submit their applications for
CEP in May when the 2018-19 School Nutrition Program
application
is available in
the Cyber-Linked Interactive Child Nutrition System (CLiCS) 2. The Community Eligibility Provision Application
Instructions for School Year 2018-19 are now available if you would like to begin gathering your materials for submission.
Please
contact Nicole Podhora at 651-582-8490 or cep.mde@state.mn.us if you have any questions about CEP.
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