California Education Code ARTICLE 11 - Meals for Needy Pupils in Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12

• Section 49550.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive,...
• Section 49550.3.
  (a) Because a hungry child cannot learn, the Legislature intends, as a state nutrition and health policy, that the School Breakfast Program be made available in...
• Section 49551.
  The State Board of Education shall adopt regulations prescribing standards and guidelines for carrying out the purposes of this article.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 49552.
  For the purposes of this article, needy children shall be defined as those children who meet federal eligibility criteria for free and reduced price meals...
• Section 49553.
  (a) A nutritionally adequate meal, for the purposes of this article, is a breakfast or lunch as defined in Section 49531 that qualifies for reimbursement under...
• Section 49554.
  Any school district or county superintendent of schools which has had no food service employees since July 1, 1977, or has inadequate or no food...
• Section 49556.
  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall supervise the implementation of this article and shall investigate acts of alleged noncompliance. In the event the Superintendent of...
• Section 49557.
  (a) (1) The governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools shall make paper applications for free or reduced-price meals available to pupils...
• Section 49557.1.
  In making available to pupils the application for participation in the free or reduced-price meal program provided for under subdivision (a) of Section 49557, each...
• Section 49557.2.
  (a) (1) At the option of the school district or county superintendent, and to the extent necessary to implement Section 14005.41 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,...
• Section 49557.3.
  (a) Each school district or county office of education, at its option, may enter into a memorandum of understanding with the local agency that determines CalFresh...
• Section 49557.5.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school, school district, county office of education, or charter school.(b) (1) A local educational agency, including a...
• Section 49558.
  (a) All applications and records concerning any individual made or kept by any public officer or agency in connection with the administration of any provision of...
• Section 49559.
  (a) Any school food authority that participates in a federal child nutrition program and is reimbursed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 41350 for meals served...
• Section 49560.
  The child nutrition programs operated pursuant to Section 49559 shall maintain a data base as specified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of...
• Section 49561.
  (a) The department shall create a computerized data matching system using existing databases from the department and the State Department of Health Care Services to directly...
• Section 49562.
  (a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, shall develop and implement a process to use the participation data from the...
• Section 49563.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Buy American provision” means the provision requiring a school food authority to purchase, to...
• Section 49564.
  (a) For purposes of this section, a “very high poverty school” is a school that enrolls pupils in kindergarten or in any of grades 1 to...
• Section 49564.5.
  In order to ensure optimal access to nutrition, facilitate the use of the federal Community Eligibility Provision (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1759a), and further reduce the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018