About 61 percent of school districts used direct certification in the NSLP in the 2001-02 school year, the same share as in 1996. Direct certification increased the number of children certified for free meals by about 400,000 and slightly increased overall NSLP participation. Under direct...

Decision Information Resources. Provides descriptive information on the use of direct certification for free school meals. Finds that nearly two-thirds of districts, enrolling nearly three-fourths of students nationwide, use direct certification. Estimates that the implementation of direct...

Decision Information Resources. Provides descriptive information on the use of direct certification for free school meals. Finds that nearly two-thirds of districts, enrolling nearly three-fourths of students nationwide, use direct certification. Estimates that the implementation of direct...

Summarizes a study of the Seamless Summer Food Waiver, a federal initiative to help school food authorities reach more hungry children in low-income areas during the summer months. Concludes that, on operational grounds alone, the waiver is worth considering as an ongoing policy, since school...

Summarizes a study of the Seamless Summer Food Waiver, a federal initiative to help school food authorities reach more hungry children in low-income areas during the summer months. Concludes that, on operational grounds alone, the waiver is worth considering as an ongoing policy, since school...

This nationally representative study, the first comprehensive look at the SFSP since 1986, found that more than 4,000 local sponsors provided about 130 million meals at more than 35,000 feeding sites in fiscal year 2001. The number of children served in July 2001—2.1 million per...