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Board wrestles with $1.2M price tag to provide free meals systemwide under CEP
Summary
Officials outlined the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) mechanics and estimated a roughly $1.2 million local budget gap to make breakfast and lunch free for all students across Prince George schools; trustees debated reimbursement multipliers, direct‑certification counts and whether the board should budget the shortfall.
The Prince George County School Board spent an extended portion of its Sept. 8 meeting on the Community Eligibility Provision, a federal option that allows schools with sufficient directly certified students to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students without collection of applications.
“CEP is not based on your free and reduced lunch percentage. It's based solely on identified students,” the presenter said, explaining that the federal reimbursement is calculated from the school’s direct‑certified identified student percentage multiplied by 1.6. That multiplier produces an estimated federal reimbursement percentage;…
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