No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? A Three Part Analysis of Free School Meal Programs Under the Community Eligibility Provision
Traditional federal school meals help mitigate food insecurity among students (Hinrichs, 2010) but do not fully eliminate it. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a federal attempt to expand access to school meals in areas of targeted need. Schools that opt into CEP offer meals at no cost to...
Saved in:
Main Author | |
---|---|
Format | Dissertation |
Language | English |
Published |
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01.01.2022
|
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Abstract | Traditional federal school meals help mitigate food insecurity among students (Hinrichs, 2010) but do not fully eliminate it. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a federal attempt to expand access to school meals in areas of targeted need. Schools that opt into CEP offer meals at no cost to all students regardless of individual need, thus replacing free and reduced-price meal applications. However, by virtue of the funding design, schools with lower levels of documented poverty are financially disincentivized from participating in CEP and despite promising benefits, many of these schools do not take up the program. Importantly, even though these schools demonstrate “lower” need, their needs may still be persistent and severe as qualification standards may under-diagnose poverty, especially in specific communities. I conduct a three-part analysis of CEP. Part one is a systematic review of existing CEP literature. CEP has shown promise in initial research to benefit students with positive outcomes on student participation in meal programs, improved nutrition quality, improved test scores, and improved attendance and taken cumulatively, indicate a reduction in anti-poverty stigma. In part two, I conduct a novel analysis of schools that opt into CEP before subsequently opting out. I find that students miss more school when CEP is taken away, an effect driven largely by students who are economically disadvantaged. In part three, I analyze the economic implications of policy proposals that expand or contract CEP. Results indicate that CEP could be expanded to provide access to nearly 20 million more students with a net federal school meal expenditure change of between 11-15.3%. Taken together, CEP is a program that benefits economically disadvantaged students in spite of a sliding scale finance schedule that disadvantages schools. Policy changes that would improve this sliding scale feature are reasonably feasible and would impact millions of economically disadvantaged students. These analyses are timely, given recent interest in the expansion of CEP and have the potential to contribute to important conversations on the future of federal school meal policy. |
---|---|
AbstractList | Traditional federal school meals help mitigate food insecurity among students (Hinrichs, 2010) but do not fully eliminate it. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a federal attempt to expand access to school meals in areas of targeted need. Schools that opt into CEP offer meals at no cost to all students regardless of individual need, thus replacing free and reduced-price meal applications. However, by virtue of the funding design, schools with lower levels of documented poverty are financially disincentivized from participating in CEP and despite promising benefits, many of these schools do not take up the program. Importantly, even though these schools demonstrate “lower” need, their needs may still be persistent and severe as qualification standards may under-diagnose poverty, especially in specific communities. I conduct a three-part analysis of CEP. Part one is a systematic review of existing CEP literature. CEP has shown promise in initial research to benefit students with positive outcomes on student participation in meal programs, improved nutrition quality, improved test scores, and improved attendance and taken cumulatively, indicate a reduction in anti-poverty stigma. In part two, I conduct a novel analysis of schools that opt into CEP before subsequently opting out. I find that students miss more school when CEP is taken away, an effect driven largely by students who are economically disadvantaged. In part three, I analyze the economic implications of policy proposals that expand or contract CEP. Results indicate that CEP could be expanded to provide access to nearly 20 million more students with a net federal school meal expenditure change of between 11-15.3%. Taken together, CEP is a program that benefits economically disadvantaged students in spite of a sliding scale finance schedule that disadvantages schools. Policy changes that would improve this sliding scale feature are reasonably feasible and would impact millions of economically disadvantaged students. These analyses are timely, given recent interest in the expansion of CEP and have the potential to contribute to important conversations on the future of federal school meal policy. |
Author | Davis, Rebecca |
Author_xml | – sequence: 1 givenname: Rebecca surname: Davis fullname: Davis, Rebecca |
BookMark | eNqNjcFqwkAURQesoNX8wwPXQpKJJlmJiNJFK4K6ljGOmSeTee28TEH68420H-Dq3ss5cF_FiyOneyIq87KQsySTWZKXAxEx4zmO41LKOEuH4mdLsA-VgYNBV4NiULDxWsN7cJVZwLIDj7lTvoWlU_bOyEDXP2lfGSILH1pZ2HmqvWoYju6iPbRGw4qaJjhs77C2WOMZ7aN34jcykhuL_lVZ1tF_jsRksz6s3qafnr6C5vZ0o-C7Tz6leVIUc5mmc_mc9Quijk_Q |
ContentType | Dissertation |
Copyright | Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works. |
Copyright_xml | – notice: Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works. |
DBID | 0-V 054 0BH 0OR 3V. 7XB 88B 8FK AAFGM ABUWG ABWIU ACUIN ADZZV AEUTQ AFKRA AFOLM AGAJT ALSLI AMEAF AQTIP AZQEC BENPR CCPQU CJNVE DWQXO EDUXX EU9 G20 GNUQQ M0P P6D PQCXX PQEDU PQEST PQQKQ PQUKI PRINS Q9U ZAJUX |
DatabaseName | ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection【Remote access available】 Dissertations & Theses Europe Full Text: Social Sciences ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional Dissertations & Theses @ University of Pennsylvania ProQuest Central (Corporate) ProQuest Central (purchase pre-March 2016) Education Database (Alumni Edition) ProQuest Central (Alumni) (purchase pre-March 2016) ProQuest Central Korea - hybrid linking ProQuest Central (Alumni) Social Science Premium Collection - hybrid linking Education Collection - hybrid linking ProQuest Central (Alumni) - hybrid linking Education Database (Alumni) - hybrid linking ProQuest Central ProQuest Central Student - hybrid linking ProQuest Central Essentials - hybrid linking Social Science Premium Collection ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection ProQuest Women's & Gender Studies - hybrid linking ProQuest Central Essentials ProQuest Central ProQuest One Community College Education Collection ProQuest Central Education Database - hybrid linking ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global ProQuest Central Student Education Database ProQuest Dissertations and Theses A&I: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection ProQuest Central - hybrid linking ProQuest One Education ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition (DO NOT USE) ProQuest One Academic ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition ProQuest Central China ProQuest Central Basic ProQuest One Education - hybrid linking |
DatabaseTitle | ProQuest One Education ProQuest Central Student ProQuest Central Essentials ProQuest Central (Alumni Edition) ProQuest One Community College ProQuest Central China ProQuest Central ProQuest Central Korea Social Science Premium Collection ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection Education Collection ProQuest Central Basic ProQuest Education Journals ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Dissertations & Theses @ University of Pennsylvania Dissertations & Theses Europe Full Text: Social Sciences ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition ProQuest Dissertations and Theses A&I: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection ProQuest One Academic ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I ProQuest Education Journals (Alumni Edition) ProQuest Central (Alumni) |
DatabaseTitleList | ProQuest One Education |
Database_xml | – sequence: 1 dbid: BENPR name: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central url: https://www.proquest.com/central sourceTypes: Aggregation Database |
DeliveryMethod | fulltext_linktorsrc |
Genre | Dissertation/Thesis |
GroupedDBID | 0-V 054 0BH 0OR 3V. 7XB 8FK 8R4 8R5 ABUWG AFKRA ALSLI AMEAF AZQEC BENPR CCPQU CJNVE DWQXO EU9 G20 GNUQQ M0P P6D PQEDU PQEST PQQKQ PQUKI PRINS Q2X Q9U |
ID | FETCH-proquest_journals_27188632263 |
IEDL.DBID | BENPR |
ISBN | 9798351434179 |
IngestDate | Fri Sep 13 02:24:20 EDT 2024 |
IsPeerReviewed | false |
IsScholarly | false |
Language | English |
LinkModel | DirectLink |
MergedId | FETCHMERGED-proquest_journals_27188632263 |
PQID | 2718863226 |
PQPubID | 18750 |
ParticipantIDs | proquest_journals_2718863226 |
PublicationCentury | 2000 |
PublicationDate | 20220101 |
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD | 2022-01-01 |
PublicationDate_xml | – month: 01 year: 2022 text: 20220101 day: 01 |
PublicationDecade | 2020 |
PublicationYear | 2022 |
Publisher | ProQuest Dissertations & Theses |
Publisher_xml | – name: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses |
SSID | ssib000933042 |
Score | 3.9698157 |
Snippet | Traditional federal school meals help mitigate food insecurity among students (Hinrichs, 2010) but do not fully eliminate it. The Community Eligibility... |
SourceID | proquest |
SourceType | Aggregation Database |
SubjectTerms | Breakfast Programs Cognitive Development Education Policy Educational Change Federal Programs Lunch Programs Outcomes of Education Sociology Student Participation Urban Schools |
Title | No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? A Three Part Analysis of Free School Meal Programs Under the Community Eligibility Provision |
URI | https://www.proquest.com/docview/2718863226/abstract/ |
hasFullText | 1 |
inHoldings | 1 |
isFullTextHit | |
isPrint | |
link | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV1bS8MwFD7M7UX0QVHxMuWAvpbeYpo8DS8tRbQUL7C30aYpe1rn2j0M_7xJ2qIw2GNIKCUJ37l9Jx_AncsU5gdMWi4rhUUoFRZ3cmKJjAcy416RS8PyTWj8RV6m99MBxH0vjKZV9phogLqohM6R254CUUbV9aN2lussgGjsyfLb0vpRus7aiWnswchziS7Yjh7DJH3fjtwPecCZ5q_7WnxrC4KNXYmO4OD5Xz38GAZycQI_SYUfazFHo6mJWY0ZRisp8VXZoPkEH9SEHqbq1LF_VASrsl3UPquJb8oBxLQlX9Vo1I1Q-XrYNYQ0Gww1F9lQYzd6Ydtkfgq3Ufj5FFv97866y1bP_rbGP4PholrIc0DBBSfEKVTYWZKc-jl1lKtRuFnhM6miwgsY7_rS5e7pK9j3dB-AyUWMYdis1vJaWecmv-k2_hdDd5cT |
link.rule.ids | 312,786,790,791,21416,33779,43840,74659 |
linkProvider | ProQuest |
linkToHtml | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV3NS8MwFH_odlD0oKj4MfWBXovdGtPkNPzYmNqVohN2G22asdOqa3cY_vO-pC0Kgx1DQghJ-L2P_F5-ALdtQZjvC-20xVQ5jHPlSDdhjoqlr2PZSRNtWb4hH3yy1_H9uEq45RWtssZEC9RppkyO_K5DICo4XT_e_fp2jGqUeV2tJDS2ock8ClUa0HzshdH7ery-L30pDGvdM5Jba8BrrUn_APae_72CH8KWnh_BT5jhx1LN0CppYpxjjP2F1hiQ5Zl18YE6TDOis8b6KxHMpuWg8jNNHJLbh1FJucrRahoheXhYlYEUK-wZBrIlxK7MwLK0_Bhu-r3R08Cplzuprlg--dsQ7wQa82yuTwGVVJIxN6Vgc8oS7iXcJQcjbcepJzTFgmfQ2jTT-ebua9gZjIbBJHgJ3y5gt2MqAWw2ogWNYrHUl2Sfi-SqOoRfJ96WRg |
linkToPdf | http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwfV3fS8MwED50AxF9UFScTj3Q17IfzdLmaahbmTpL8QfsbbRpyp5aXbeH4T_vJc1QGOwxJISQHN_dJd_lA7jr-IT5nq-cjp9Jh3EuHdFOmCNj4alYdNNEGZZvyEef7HnSm1j-U2lplWtMNECdFlLfkbe6BKI-J_PjrczSIqJB0P_6drSClH5ptXIau1D3GO-RhdcfhmH0tpm7HwpP-JrB7mr5rQ0QNp4lOIKDwb8X8WPYUfkJ_IQFvi_lDI2qJsYlxhjMlcIxeaFZH--pQzcjOndcfyuCRVYNqj7WxFcKATGq6FclGn0jpGgPbUnIYoVDzUY25NiVHliVmZ_CbTD8eBw56-VOrbmV07_Ncc-glhe5OgeUQgrG2iklnhlLuJvwNgUbaSdOXV9RXtiA5raZLrZ338Ae7f90_BS-XMJ-VxcFmIuJJtQW86W6Ile9SK7tGfwCjbmagw |
openUrl | ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.genre=dissertation&rft.title=No+Such+Thing+as+a+Free+Lunch%3F+A+Three+Part+Analysis+of+Free+School+Meal+Programs+Under+the+Community+Eligibility+Provision&rft.DBID=0-V%3B054%3B0BH%3B0OR%3B3V.%3B7XB%3B88B%3B8FK%3BAAFGM%3BABUWG%3BABWIU%3BACUIN%3BADZZV%3BAEUTQ%3BAFKRA%3BAFOLM%3BAGAJT%3BALSLI%3BAMEAF%3BAQTIP%3BAZQEC%3BBENPR%3BCCPQU%3BCJNVE%3BDWQXO%3BEDUXX%3BEU9%3BG20%3BGNUQQ%3BM0P%3BP6D%3BPQCXX%3BPQEDU%3BPQEST%3BPQQKQ%3BPQUKI%3BPRINS%3BQ9U%3BZAJUX&rft.PQPubID=18750&rft.au=Davis%2C+Rebecca&rft.date=2022-01-01&rft.pub=ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+Theses&rft.isbn=9798351434179&rft.externalDBID=HAS_PDF_LINK |
thumbnail_l | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798351434179/lc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true |
thumbnail_m | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798351434179/mc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true |
thumbnail_s | http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798351434179/sc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true |