Community Eligibility Program
- Robin Rodrigue
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) provides an alternative approach for offering school meals to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools in low income areas, instead of collecting individual applications for free and reduced price meals. For additional details and regulations for CEP, refer to the USDA website. Click here for the latest CEP update - January 14, 2015.
CEP must be established in multiple software applications in order for accurate reporting to occur.
DataCenter
Percentages for participating CEP schools must be added in DataCenter.
Once you have logged in to DataCenter, click on the Admin tab and select Maintenance. Then, choose School Maintenance.
Enter percentages for each participating school. Then, click Ok.
You may now exit DataCenter.
Franklin
School Types must be established as CEP in Franklin.
From the Administration and Maintenance tab, click on Miscellaneous Schools and select Schools. Then, chose Schools.
For each CEP school, use the drop-down menu in the School Type column and the type to Community Eligibility Provision. Then, click Save Changes.
Eligibility for students in CEP schools needs to be refigured for changes to occur. Click OK to continue with changes.
Newton
You must synchronize Newton with DataCenter in order for changes to be applied.
From the Utilities tab, select DataCenter. Then, chose Full Sync.
From the Administration and Maintenance tab, select Miscellaneous Setup. Then, chose Schools.
Use the drop-down menu for Breakfast Area Eligible and Lunch Area Eligible columns and change the participating schools to CEP.
Verify the percentages and schools established in DataCenter have carried over by viewing the CEP% Identified column.
Then, click Ok.
