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The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Oklahoma State Department of Education $186.3 million on October 1, 2025, under the National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555). The funding supports nutritionally balanced, low-cost or no-cost lunch service for school children across Oklahoma public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. OSDE administers the program statewide, reviewing applications from school food authorities, determining school eligibility, establishing written participation agreements, and overseeing compliance with federal meal pattern requirements and nonprofit operation standards. School food authorities receive cash subsidies and USDA Foods for each reimbursable meal served and may claim reimbursement for snacks in approved afterschool programs with educational or enrichment activities. Participating schools must serve lunches at free or reduced prices to eligible children and maintain full records of nonprofit food service operations, finances, menu planning, meal counting, and claiming for state agency review.

The award period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with place of performance in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The National School Lunch Program is a permanent federal program established to assist states through cash grants and food donations in providing nutritious nonprofit lunch service and to encourage domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities.