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Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
Pages 225-234
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Community Eligibility Option CPI Consumer Price Index CPS Current Population Survey CPS ASEC Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement CV coefficient of variation ESEA Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 FDPIR Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations FNS Food and Nutrition Service FRPL free or reduced-price lunch 225
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school food authority SIPP Survey of Income and Program Participation SNA School Nutrition Association SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program) SNDA-III School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study III (U.S.
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Application Local education agencies send students' parents a letter just prior to or at the beginning of a school year describing the school meals programs, inviting them to apply, and providing an application form. The application requests information about program par ticipation, family composition, and family income.
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A student who has not applied for free or reduced-price meals and is not determined to be eligible through categorical eligibil ity is certified as eligible only for full-price meals. Claiming Under the traditional school meals programs and percentages Provisions 1, 2, and 3, the percentages of meals served in the three eligibility categories (free, reduced price, and full price)
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Districts must conduct direct certification every 4 years but may do so more often. Direct The process by which local education agencies idencertification tify categorically eligible students based primarily on their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program)
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. Local The public board of education or other public or education private nonprofit authority legally constituted in a agency state for the administrative control of public or pri vate nonprofit schools in a political subdivision of the state; an administrative agency or a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized by the state; any other public or private nonprofit institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public or private nonprofit school or residential child care institution; or the state education agency in a state or territory in which the state education agency is the sole education agency for all public or private nonprofit schools.
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The number of meals served is the aggregate of daily meal counts over the time period. Nutrition School lunches and breakfasts must meet the applicastandards ble recommendations of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines.
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Reimburse ment is based on the total number of meals served and the claiming percentages that were observed in the same month of the base year. Provision 3 Schools, groups of schools, and school districts pro vide free meals to all students for a 4-year period and receive the same level of federal cash and com modity assistance as they received in the base year, with some adjustment for enrollment, the number of operating days, and inflation.
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That entity may be officially known as the school food authority or the local education agency. School food The governing body responsible for the administraauthority tion of one or more schools and having the legal authority to operate the school meals programs in those schools.
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