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    • Direct Certification in the NSL Program State Implementation Report to Congress SY17-18 and SY18-19

    Metadata Updated: May 8, 2025

    This report responds to the requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Direct certification is a process conducted by the states and by local educational agencies (LEAs) to certify eligible children for free meals without the need for household applications. The 2004 Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act (PL 108-265) required LEAs to establish systems to directly certify children from households that receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by school year (SY) 2008-2009. This report presents information on the outcomes of direct certification for SY 2017-2018 and SY 2018-2019.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date August 4, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025

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    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 4, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025
    Publisher Food and Nutrition Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-FNS-151
    Data First Published 2021-07-16
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2021-07-16
    Rights true
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 000:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 762e7052-2f6f-4cbe-a47e-2bb9afe3c6b9
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 000:000
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of Agriculture > Food and Nutrition Service
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 926bee83847193dd8285caa3113eafbb4ed08b20226a1d8f19e497a162a12452
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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