Community Eligibility: Making Schools Hunger Free
The Community Eligibility Provision within the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs allows schools in high-poverty areas to offer nutritious meals to all students at no charge. Community eligibility is a proven tool to make sure children in high-poverty schools are fueled up and ready to learn.
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DATABASE
Schools That Can Adopt Community Eligibility
This searchable database from the Food Research and Action Center provides information on which schools are eligible to adopt the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) for the 2016-2017 school year and which schools have already implemented it. Community eligibility is a powerful tool to ensure that low-income children have access to breakfast and lunch at no charge.
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INTERACTIVE
Benefits of Community Eligibility
-More Policy Explanations-
- The Community Eligibility Provision: Alternatives to School Meal Applications
- Summary of Implications of Community Eligibility for Title I
- Improving Direct Certification Will Help More Low-Income Children Receive School Meals
- Implications of Community Eligibility for the Education of Disadvantaged Students Under Title I
- New Policy Makes It Easier for Community Eligibility Schools to Participate in E-Rate Program
- Community Eligibility: Making High-Poverty Schools Hunger Free
- The Community Eligibility Provision: Alternatives to School Meal Applications
-More Visual Tools-
- What People Are Saying About Community Eligibility
- Community Eligibility By the Numbers
- Making High Poverty Schools Hunger Free
- Top Ten Reasons for Schools to Adopt Community Eligibility
- Poster: Community Eligibility Helps Children Grow, Learn, and Thrive
- Community Eligibility Photographics for Social Media
-Implementation Tools-
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