Free and reduced price meal application data are used to allocate billions of dollars annually in education funding. However, schools serving universal free meals under the Community Eligibility Provision meal service option or USDA’s COVID-19 waivers do not typically collect school meal applications. The loss of this data has caused confusion among school administrators about … Continue reading Improving Access to Free School Meals: Addressing Intersections Between Universal Free School Meal Approaches and Educational Funding