{"id":6704,"date":"2020-08-04T18:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2020-08-04T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:18:35","slug":"news-release-kpbsd-student-nutrition-services-sns-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2020\/08\/04\/news-release-kpbsd-student-nutrition-services-sns-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: KPBSD Student Nutrition Services (SNS) Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#315e4d\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SNS will serve meals onsite, plus Get-it and Go<br \/> <em>new!<\/em> streamlined online application process for free or reduced meals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Soldotna, August 4, 2020\u2014The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will provide meals to students who attend school onsite, and to everyone who chooses 100% remote learning with their KPBSD school.* New! A streamlined online application for Free and Reduced Meals to determine benefits and qualify communities for federal funds is now live.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color\"><strong>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District 2020-2021 Meal Prices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Students approved for Free and Reduced meals: $.00<\/li><li>Grades K-12: $2.00<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><strong>Lunch<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Students approved for Free meals: $.00<\/li><li>Students approved for reduced meals: $.40<\/li><li>Grades K-6: $3.00<\/li><li>Grades 7-12: $3.50<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>The Community Eligible Program (CEP)\nqualifies <em>every<\/em> student in the school\nto receive free meals. KPBSD CEP schools are: Homer Flex School; Nanwalek\nSchool; Nikolaevsk School; Port Graham School; Tebughna School<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>New!<\/em><\/strong><strong> Two key changes in the 2020-2021\nschool year:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color\"><strong>Online Application<\/strong>: <strong>Parents or guardians must reapply each year\nfor free or reduced meal benefits <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This year, all applications will be accepted\nonline through the new state portal at <a href=\"http:\/\/mealapp.kpbsd.org\">http:\/\/mealapp.kpbsd.org<\/a>.\nIf someone does not have access to the internet, each school will have a few\npaper applications in the school office. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Meal benefits from the 2019-2020 school\nyear will carry over until October 5, 2020, but a new application must be\nreceived by KPBSD Student Nutrition Services by then, or the student will revert\nto a paid meal status.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color\"><strong>Opt-In form required to charge meals up to two days of meals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Students will not be permitted to charge\nany meals this year until parents or guardians have signed an Opt-In form for\ntheir child. The Opt-In is included in the online packet, and SNS needs a form\ncompleted for each student that a parent gives permission to charge. When completed,\nstudents will be allowed to charge up to two days of meals, and no further\ncharges will be allowed until the amount is paid back. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>*Get It and Go Meals will be provided\nto families who choose 100% Remote Learning <em>with<\/em>\ntheir KPBSD School, and available for pickup once a week at the school. If a\nKPBSD school shifts to high COVID19 risk and becomes 100% Remote, then those\nstudents will also be able to receive Get It and Go Meals, similar to spring\n2020. Meal charges will be applied to the students account according to their\nFree, Reduced, or Paid status. Homeschool students are not eligible for Get It\nand Go Meals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>In 1965, federal funds\nwere&nbsp;established through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)\nto ensure that all children have a fair and equal opportunity to education. KPBSD\nhas developed programs to support struggling learners all around the district,\nand various forms are included in school registration packets each year to help\nidentify qualifying students and families. Completion of the Free and Reduced Meal application\u2013even by families who do not want to use free\nor reduced price meals\u2013is important to the continuation of these federally\nfunded programs. Federal funding is based on qualified applications.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2020\/08\/FY21-AK-Student-Meals-Online-Application-Free-and-Reduced-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6706\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/departments.aspx?id=296\">KPBSD Student Nutrition Services webpage<\/a><\/li><li>KPBSD Free and Reduced Meal\napplication: <a href=\"http:\/\/mealapp.kpbsd.org\">http:\/\/mealapp.kpbsd.org<\/a><\/li><li>KPBSD secure <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.revtrak.net\/\">webstore to add food service funds for meals<\/a>, or use the link on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/communications.aspx?id=31262\">KPBSD mobile app<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNS will serve meals onsite, plus Get-it and Go new! streamlined online application process for free or reduced meals Soldotna, August 4, 2020\u2014The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2020\/08\/04\/news-release-kpbsd-student-nutrition-services-sns-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News Release: KPBSD Student Nutrition Services (SNS) Updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[669,989],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-meals","tag-student-nutrition-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}