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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. Because the vast majority of participating schools are part of school districts, we use the term school district throughout this report to refer to both public and private nonprofit local entities that enter into agreements with state agencies to operate the SBP and the NSLP.
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, which collects income and other relevant information on very large samples of families every month, FNS decided to investigate the feasibility of using data from the ACS or other sources in the administration of the school meals programs. FNS asked the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics and Food and Nutrition Board to convene an expert panel to consider ways in which the burden could be further reduced for school districts that provide free meals to all students in participating schools by using available data to estimate the share of meal costs to be reimbursed by the federal government.
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Students from families with incomes over 185 percent of the poverty guideline pay a full price, although their meals are still subsidized to some extent. School districts set their own prices for full-price meals but must operate their meal services as nonprofit programs.
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Provision 2 and Provision 3 require that schools offer free meals to all participating students in exchange for collecting applications from students' families (and using direct certification) and counting meals served by category at most once every 4 years.6 Then for the duration of use of one of the 5 The 2004 Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act required that all school districts establish a system of direct certification of students from households that receive SNAP benefits by school year 2008-2009.
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While many school districts have adopted Provision 2 and fewer have adopted Provision 3,8 operation under the provisions can be challenging. Under these provisions, "claiming percentages" for reimbursement are established in a "base year," during which schools take applications and conduct direct certification and count the number of meals served by cat egory.
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Chapter 4 provides a framework for examining school districts and introduces the selection of districts to serve as case studies. Chapter 5 describes methods the panel will consider for developing estimates of claiming percentages for free and reduced-price meals and adjusting those estimates so that they will better reflect the eligibility requirements of the school meals programs and improve their reliability for small school districts and school attendance areas.
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Chapter 6 discusses how alternative estimates will be assessed concerning their fitness for use. Chapter 7 addresses issues of operational feasibility.
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