{"id":15406,"date":"2024-11-06T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2024-11-07T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:09:49","slug":"fern-ridge-school-district-offers-free-meals-to-all-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/fern-ridge-school-district-offers-free-meals-to-all-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern Ridge School District Offers Free Meals to All Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14874\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1000009047-1-570x428.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Fern Ridge School District now qualifies for the CEP, providing all students with free breakfast and lunch during the school year. (Photo by Penny Cordon \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fern Ridge School District began providing free lunch and breakfast to all students this year after qualifying for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEP allows schools and districts who are in low-income eligible areas to provide school breakfast and lunch at no cost to student families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have&nbsp;never qualified until this year because they lowered the 40% threshold to 25%,&#8221; FRSD Business Manager Quanah Bennett told Falcon News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Oregon Department of Education, about 70% of schools in the state of Oregon will now offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students this year, an increase from about 55% last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants of CEP are approved for four years, which may be stopped anytime during the four-year duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students must get a full meal to receive the lunch for free, which includes an entree, a side of a fruit or vegetable, and milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are still able to get an extra meal during lunchtime, but they are not free and those students must have money on their lunch account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district qualifies for the Community Eligibility Provision after a recent amendment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":14874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15875,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions\/15875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}