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Download full textEmily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Congressional Republicans are reportedly considering spending cuts to balance the cost of extending the tax cuts they enacted in 2017. One proposal is to raise the eligibility threshold for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), which lets schools provide federally reimbursed free meals to all students. This change would cut the number of…
Descriptors: Politics, Elementary Secondary Education, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Free school meal access has become increasingly intertwined with federal social safety net programs--including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--to reduce duplicative paperwork for schools. The changes to SNAP that House Republicans have proposed would have downstream effects on free school meal access. The proposed changes to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Political Attitudes, Eligibility
Emily Gutierrez; Maggie Reeves; Ariella Meltzer; Victoria Nelson; Fanny Terrones – Urban Institute, 2024
Colorado's Healthy School Meals for All (HSMA) program provides free breakfast and lunch to all students, regardless of economic background, and aims to strengthen farm-to-school systems and school food service workers' pay. After unexpected increases in student participation, the program faced a significant budget shortfall that raised warning…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Lunch Programs, Budgeting, Educational Policy
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
House Republicans have passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which now goes to the Senate for consideration. The goal is to pass the bill by July, though final content and timeline are subject to change. The bill puts forth several changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aimed at reducing federal spending…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Lunch Programs
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Direct linkMichah W. Rothbart; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Emily Gutierrez – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 allows school districts to provide free meals to all students if over 40 percent of them are directly certified as free-meal eligible. While emerging evidence documents positive effects on student behavior and academics, critics worry that CEP has unintended…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, Federal Legislation, Lunch Programs
Emily Gutierrez – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Over the last decade, more and more schools have adopted Universal Free Meals (UFM), a program that provides meals free of charge to all students, regardless of household income. Recent research finds UFM increases participation in school meals, improves test scores, and reduces incidences of bad behavior. Additionally, advocates cite stigma…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Bullying
