Community Eligibility Report
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) provided schools and districts that predominately serve low-income children with a new option for meal certification. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, schools do not collect or process meal applications for free and reduced-price meals served in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. Schools must serve all meals at no cost with any costs in excess of the Federal reimbursement paid from non-Federal sources. The evaluation, mandated by HHFKA, examined the implementation and impacts of the Community Eligibility Provision. Details of this program are outlined in a document you can read by clicking on this link.
Systems Design is providing a program that will generate a report that provides the percentages so as to determine if Community Eligibility is beneficial to your district. We recommend that you give the data to the Business Manager and if this benefits the district, you need to just key them in on TXUNPS. You can run this program at any time and the system will give you the percentages in real time for the district. You will need to go to Direct Certification under Lunch Applications(LA-08) and select option 19. as indicated in this tutorial. You will be asked if you want to save the file to your PC so that you can also have the data in a csv file for import to Excel or other programs. You may also elect to not have a file sent to your PC by entering an N (No) in this prompt so that a file will not be sent to your PC but in either case a printed copy will be sent to the designated printer. The printed copy may then be used as the source for the data to be manually entered as provided for in the TXUMPS website.
It is possible that this data may be required on a recurring basis. Considering that this may be the case then the entries to TXUMPS will be required prior to March 15th, 2015.
In order for this program to work correctly you must have done your Direct Certified (DC) and Contracting Entity (CE) Level Matching updates from TXUNPS and updated the files in Systems Design! The instructions for DC and CE are available in other tutorials on this site.
Systems Design is providing a program that will generate a report that provides the percentages so as to determine if Community Eligibility is beneficial to your district. We recommend that you give the data to the Business Manager and if this benefits the district, you need to just key them in on TXUNPS. You can run this program at any time and the system will give you the percentages in real time for the district. You will need to go to Direct Certification under Lunch Applications(LA-08) and select option 19. as indicated in this tutorial. You will be asked if you want to save the file to your PC so that you can also have the data in a csv file for import to Excel or other programs. You may also elect to not have a file sent to your PC by entering an N (No) in this prompt so that a file will not be sent to your PC but in either case a printed copy will be sent to the designated printer. The printed copy may then be used as the source for the data to be manually entered as provided for in the TXUMPS website.
It is possible that this data may be required on a recurring basis. Considering that this may be the case then the entries to TXUMPS will be required prior to March 15th, 2015.
In order for this program to work correctly you must have done your Direct Certified (DC) and Contracting Entity (CE) Level Matching updates from TXUNPS and updated the files in Systems Design! The instructions for DC and CE are available in other tutorials on this site.