Tennessee DOE adds associated-user confirmation and civil rights questions to TMAC application

Good afternoon. I am Rhonda Mead. I am the senior compliance and data manager with the School Nutrition Program. Today, I'm going over school year 2526, TMAC application update.

The Tennessee Department of Education’s School Nutrition Program on a virtual training laid out two primary changes to the Tennessee Meal Access and Claiming (TMAC) application packet for school year 2025–26: a new associated-user confirmation tool to manage who has access to an SFA’s TMAC account, and a set of expanded civil rights questions that SFAs must answer when they submit their application packet.

The associated-user confirmation is designed to reduce manual work currently performed by TDOE staff. Under the new feature, anyone with SFA-level access to TMAC will appear in an "active associations" list where authorized users can mark accounts for removal, re-add users removed in error prior to certification, and then certify and save. Rhonda Mead demonstrated that the status appears as "pending validation" until the form is saved and certified, and that after certification the interface will show who removed an association and when for audit purposes. She explained that the…