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Eliminate the provision that lets whole schools serve free meals

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 10, p. 303. Written by Daren Bakst.

Eliminate the provision that lets whole schools serve free meals

The document says “shouldWho acts: Congress, USDAHow: legislationp. 303 in the PDF
What the document says

“Work with lawmakers to eliminate CEP.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 303

The Community Eligibility Provision lets schools in high-poverty areas serve free meals to all pupils without individual applications. The chapter says school meal programs should serve children in need rather than become an entitlement for students from middle and upper income homes. It separately asks for a rule clarifying that only a whole school or whole district, not a subset of schools, can qualify.

What the document actually says

“Work with lawmakers to eliminate CEP.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 303
That sentence, in plain words

Work with Congress to end this rule.

What this is about

One rule lets some schools feed every child free. It is used where many families are poor. The book says meals should go only to children in need.

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