CEP – Nutrition Services

Overview – Nutrition Services Option provides an alternative to household applications for free and reduced price meals in high poverty local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools. LEA or schools electing the Provision agree to serve all students free lunches and breakfasts for four successive school years. Count total breakfasts and total lunches served to students daily Meal program claims are based on the percentage of identified students multiplied by a factor of 1.6. Available Nationwide starting SY 2014/15

Who are the Identified Students? Identified students are defined as the students certified for free meals not through the submission of individual applications. SNAP, TANF, and FDPIR participation homeless on the liaison list, Head Start, pre-K Even Start, migrant youth, runaways, and non-applicants approved by local officials. Foster children certified through means other than an application are also included. Students who are categorically eligible based on the submission of a free and reduced price application are not included

CEP Claiming Example Example: Identified student % = 50% Free claiming percentage = 80% (50% X 1.6) Paid claiming percentage = 20% (100% - 80%) Total meals = 1,000 Number of free meals =800 (1,000 X 80%) Number of paid meals = 200 (1,000 – 800)

Community Eligibility In SC ( ) Thirty Eight School Districts 224 Schools Entire School districts

Community Eligibility in SC SY Participating Districts Allendale Barnwell 19 Bamberg One Bamberg Two Beaufort Calhoun Cherokee Chesterfield Colleton County Clarendon Two Dorchester Four Participating Districts Darlington Dillon Four Fairfield Georgetown Greenville Hampton One Hampton Two Jasper Legacy Charter Lee County Lexington Four

Community Eligibility in SC SY Marlboro Marion McCormick Orangeburg Four Orangeburg Five St. Anthony of Padua Sumter One Spartanburg 7 Williamsburg

Step 1: Determining Identified Student, Free, and Paid Percentages

Invalid Identified Student Percentage:

Step 2: Federal Reimbursement Rates The reimbursement rates in the Estimator are for the current year. The monthly Federal reimbursement payments will be based on the updated reimbursement rates for the new school year.

Step 3: Entering Monthly Meal Data:

Estimated Federal and Non- Federal Funds

Participation Projection

Issues surrounding CEP!!!! How will state level funding be determined? Will the 1.6 multiplier remain constant? Will my district lose money? What happens if my ISP increases in the second year after I enroll in CEP? How will students in CEP schools who do not want free meals be handled?

CEP AND TITLE I

Poverty Data Historically, Free and Reduced Lunch counts have been used by education programs to determine poverty percentages and figures for funding and reporting. With the new CEP program, traditional Free and Reduced Lunch data on students will not be available at CEP schools. Poverty data is needed at the student level for Federal and State reporting and accountability purposes and for state finance calculations.

Title I District Allocations Title I, Part A allocations to school districts are based on largely on census poverty data, not on Free and Reduced Lunch counts. There may be some special school districts that might be affected.

School Rankings The poverty percentage is necessary for the ranking of schools within a district. Districts have used the March Free and Reduced Lunch count numbers (minus PreK) and the 135 ADM to determine the poverty percent for each school to use to rank schools and provide allocations. Spring 2014 Free and Reduced lunch data was available for all LEAs to rank schools for school year.

LEA’s with no CEP schools If an LEA and its schools are not eligible to qualify for CEP or chose not to participate in CEP, then the LEA may rank its schools for Title I via the traditional method of F/R lunch counts (March F/R Lunch count and 135 ADM) or by using the direct certification percentage for each school (number of “identified students” and the April 1 enrollment).

LEA (no CEP schools) F/R Lunch Count (minus PreK) School 135 ADM F/R Lunch Count Poverty Percent RankPPA Allocation = Lunch count X PPA Prevatt Elementary %1$100$9000 Stehle Elementary %2$100$8500 Larkin Elementary %3$100$15,000 Cook Elementary %4$100$15,000 Boison Middle %5$50$11,100 Dillard Middle %6$50$10,800 Boggs HS %7$50$7,500 Stanley HS %8$50$7,200

LEA (no CEP schools) Direct Certification Data (minus PreK) School April 1 Enrollment Identified Students – Direct Certification Poverty Percent RankPPA Identified students X PPA Stehle Elementary %1$100$8000 Prevatt Elementary %2$100$7000 Cook Elementary %3$50$6250 Larkin Elementary %4$50$5000 Boison Middle %5$50$7500 Stanley HS %6$25$3125 Dillard Middle %7NA Boggs HS %8NA

LEA’s with all CEP schools If an LEA has all schools as CEP schools, then the ranking could be done on the April 1 st direct certification percentage or by the direct certification percentage times the 1.6 multiplier (which approximates F/R lunch counts).

LEA (all CEP schools) Direct Certification Data (minus PreK) School April 1 Enrollment Identified Students – Direct Certification Poverty Percent RankPPA Identified students X PPA Stehle Elementary %1$100$8000 Prevatt Elementary %2$100$7000 Cook Elementary %3$50$6250 Larkin Elementary %4$50$5000 Boison Middle %5$50$7500 Stanley HS %6$25$3125 Dillard Middle %7NA Boggs HS %8NA

LEA (all CEP schools) Direct Certification Data times multiplier School April 1 Enroll # # Identified Students – Direct Certification Direct Cert % Direct cert % times 1.6 multiplier Poverty Percent Rank # Identified students times 1.6 multiplier PPAAllocation Stehle Elementary %128%100% $10 0 $12,800 Prevatt Elementary %112%100% $10 0 $11,200 Cook Elementary %101%100% $10 0 $20,000 Larkin Elementary %80% 4 160$50$8,000 Boison Middle %80% 5 240$50$12,000 Stanley HS %67% 6 200$25$5000 Dillard Middle %53% 7 160$25$4000 Boggs HS %53% 8 160$25$4000

LEAs with CEP schools and non-CEP schools If an LEA has both CEP schools and non-CEP schools, then it could rank the schools using the direct certification percentage for each school or by using the F/R lunch count at non-CEP schools and the direct certification percentage times the 1.6 multiplier to get the approximate F/R lunch percent. or by using the F/R lunch count at non-CEP schools and an alternate income survey form similar to the F/R lunch form at CEP schools (some districts have discussed this option).

LEA (CEP schools and non-CEP schools) Direct Certification Data School CEP schools April 1 Enrollment # Identified Students – Direct Certification Poverty Percent RankPPAAllocation Stehle Elementary Y %1$100$8000 Prevatt Elementary Y %2$100$7000 Cook Elementary Y %3$50$6250 Larkin Elementary Y %4$50$5000 Boison Middle N %5$50$7500 Stanley HS N %6$25$3125 Dillard Middle N %7NA Boggs HS N %8NA

LEA (CEP schools and non-CEP Schools) F/R Lunch Count (minus PreK) and multiplier School CEP schools Enroll. # Ident students Direct Cert Direct Cert # times 1.6 multiplier 135 ADM F/R Lunch Count Poverty Percent Rank # of students for PPA Allocation Assume $100 PPA for all schools Prevatt Elementary Y NA 100% Direct Cert (equals enrollment) $10,000 Stehle Elementary Y NA 100% Direct Cert (equals enrollment) $10,000 Larkin Elementary Y NA 100% Direct Cert (equals enrollment) $20,000 Cook Elementary Y NA 80% Direct Cert (equals Direct Cert # X 1.6) $16,000 Boison Middle N % F/R 5222 $35,520 Dillard Middle N % F/R 6216 $21,600 Boggs HS N % F/R7150 $15,000 Stanley HS N % F/R8144 $14,400

Allocations The general rules of per pupil allocations apply (no higher poverty school receives a lower PPA than lower poverty schools). The number of students used as the basis of the per pupil allocation must be consistent within the LEA. The method must be consistently applied across district schools.

Allocations If there are no CEP schools, use the F/R lunch count numbers. If all schools are CEP use the direct certification number (identified students) or the multiplier number. If some schools are CEP schools and some are F/R lunch schools, use the direct certification number for all schools or the multiplier number and the F/R lunch count number.

Accountability Title I must assess and report annually on the progress of economically disadvantaged students toward meeting the State’s academic goals (subsidized meals subgroup on State Report Cards). F/R Lunch data or CEP data may be the best source of data for accountability.

Accountability For (spring 2015 testing) CEP schools will code all students as Free in PowerSchool. Beyond , the State will probably need to identify one measure common to all regarding poverty reporting CEP identified students data may be the new F/R Lunch count.

CEP & State Funding

What will we use in ? Current definition of poverty – Free/reduced and/or Medicaid will be used for all state funding in FY 15 using FY 14 data. Report card data will reflect this information and 45-day will be updated with most current data

What will we use going forward? Options Census? Direct Cert Data?

Questions??