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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So do all the kids get free lunches including little larla?[/quote]

Yes. At a community eligibility option school, there is no effort to collect FARMs applications, and there is no mechanism to collect payment for lunches from any child. Everyone eats for free.

(I have a theory -- but it's really just a theory, I have no evidence beyond my suspicion -- that some of the CEO schools are ones that have gained just enough high-SES families through gentrification that they've fallen close to or below the 80% percent threshhold for all students to eat free. Since they are right on the borderline, rather than start taking FARMs data & adding payment mechanisms, which would be huge administrative PITAs, they just make them CEO schools. If the enrollment settles at a figure below 80%, they might go ahead and deal with payment, but they don't want to do all that for a school that could go back up above 80% with a change of administration. But like I said, it's just a theory.)[/quote]

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