Free and reduced-price school lunch and breakfast programs will be up for reauthorization in 2015. A new issue brief by the Food Research and Action Council wants the Congress to:
· Increase the number of low-income children who are directly certified for free school meals by virtue of their participation in other means-tested programs. This cross- certification would do away with unnecessary applications and reduce burdens on schools and parents.
· Eliminate the 30-cent reduced-price co-payment for breakfast.
· Require Title I Schools to offer the school breakfast and lunch programs to ensure that their low-income students have access to nutritious school meals.
· Provide more adequate school breakfast funding to high-poverty schools by increasing the “severe need” reimbursement they receive for each breakfast served to a low-income student and by changing the threshold required for schools to qualify for “severe need” funding.
· Allow school districts to claim and receive reimbursements retroactively for meals served to free- and reduced-price eligible children starting with the first day of the school year.
Source: Food Research and Action Council, 2/14, Reauthorization
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