Eliminate the provision that lets whole schools serve free meals
What the document says“Work with lawmakers to eliminate CEP.”
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.”
Work with Congress to end this rule.
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.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, Public Law 119-69, approved January 14, 2026, amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, which is the statute the Community Eligibility Provision sits in. What it changes is which milk may be served and what food service training must cover. It leaves eligibility untouched, and nothing indexed repeals or narrows the provision that lets high-poverty schools serve all pupils without individual applications. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.