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Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Programs Interim Report (2010) / Chapter Skim
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7 Operational Feasibility
Pages 100-104

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From page 100...
... Information provided by the case study districts, the Census Bureau, and the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) will help the panel develop recommendations for how adjustments can best and most easily be imple 1 Open enrollment, school choice programs, and home schooling can also draw students from their local schools.
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From page 101...
... Should FNS decide that model-based estimates of eligibility could be used in developing claim ing percentages for determining reimbursements to school districts under Provision 4, an interagency agreement with the Census Bureau would be needed for regularly providing estimates for the multiples of the poverty thresholds that are used for free and reduced-price school meals. Work would be needed by the Census Bureau to incorporate the panel's meth
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From page 102...
... Hence, the panel will need to propose a process, most likely an annual process, by which school districts provide to the Census Bureau school attendance-area boundary information and possibly aux iliary information, such as counts of students directly certified, and the Census Bureau provides to the districts ACS direct or model-based esti mates using the methods developed by the panel. Among the issues that are not yet clear are the cost to school districts and how geographic issues (such as split blocks)
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From page 103...
... The panel looks forward to working with the case study school districts, FNS, and the Census Bureau to determine methods that are operationally feasible for producing estimates that could be consid ered in a new Provision 4 to expand the reach of the school meals programs and minimize administrative burden for schools and families.
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