CNP meal reimbursement

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Connecticut Department of Education $4,068,013 under the State Administrative Expenses for Child Nutrition program (CFDA 10.560) on October 1, 2025, for CNP meal reimbursement. The award covers the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027, with performance in Connecticut.

Under this formula grant, Connecticut receives funds to support its administrative expenses in supervising and providing technical assistance to local schools and institutions conducting Child Nutrition Programs, including the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program. The state agency allocation is calculated annually based on a tiered percentage of funds expended in the second preceding fiscal year — one percent for National School Lunch, School Breakfast, and Special Milk Programs, and a declining percentage scale (twenty percent of the first $50,000, ten percent of the next $100,000, five percent of the next $250,000, and two and one-half percent of remaining funds) for the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Connecticut may carryover up to twenty percent of allocated SAE funds for obligation and expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year. Release of funds is contingent upon approval of the state's SAE plan and execution of a written agreement with FNS.