Community eligibility provision
An option that allows high-poverty schools to serve free meals to all students without individual applications.
- Also called
- CEP
- Used in
- United States
- Topic
- Funding
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Related terms
- Free and reduced-price lunch (FRL / FRPL) United States
- Free or low-cost school meals for children from low-income families under the National School Lunch Program; often used as a measure of poverty in schools.
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Bond measure · E-rate · Head Start · National School Lunch Program · Per-pupil spending · Property tax
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