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12/2/2024 NSLP- USDA Foods Ordering Updates

12/2/2024 Next Local Food for Schools Office Hours: December 11th, 2024, 3-4 p.m. CDT

12/2/2024 Final Rule Resources

12/2/2024 We Found Our Treasure!

12/2/2024 Apply for the HMI Recognition Awards Today!

11/26/2024 New Farm to School Grant Opportunity for NSLP/CACFP/SFSP

11/26/2024 TANS Update

11/25/2024 Updated! Team Nutrition’s “Offering Meats and Meat Alternates at School Breakfast”

11/25/2024 Minor Update to USDA Complaint Form

11/25/2024 Preparation for the Upcoming WBSCM Requisition and Ordering Cycle

11/25/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory and Contract Management

11/25/2024 Updated Guidance Related to Accepting Processed Product Documentation

11/19/2024 NSLP: USDA Foods Ordering Updates

11/19/2024 Planned Downtime - Texas ELMS

11/8/2024 New Farm to School Grant Opportunity for NSLP/CACFP/SFSP

11/7/2024 TANS Update

11/7/2024 New Guidance Related to Fees for Online Meal Payments

11/7/2024 RELEASE: Updated Pre-Award Civil Rights Compliance Review Form

11/7/2024 Crosswalk of 2 CFR 200 Updates Posted on SquareMeals

11/1/2024 Update on Local Food for Schools Grant Guidance

10/31/2024 USDA 2023 Farm to School Census Results

10/30/2024 New Training Series from Team Nutrition!

10/30/2024 We Found Our Treasure!

10/30/2024 Apply for the HMI Recognition Awards Today!

10/30/2024 Next Local Food for Schools Office Hours: November 13th, 2024, 3-4 p.m. CDT

10/30/2024 Verification Report Timeline

10/29/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory and Contract Management

10/29/2024 FSMC Fridays

10/29/2024 FSMC New RFP/Contract and Renewal Contract Timeline

10/29/2024 Revised Crediting in the Child Nutrition Programs Tip Sheet Series!

10/29/2024 The Revised Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

10/29/2024 Fiscal Year 2025 CACFP & SFSP Area Eligibility Data Now Available!

10/29/2024 New School Meals Training Series from Team Nutrition

10/29/2024 Updated Guidance on Fluid Milk Requirements in the School Meal Programs

10/29/2024 Updated Guidance on Substituting Vegetables for Fruit at Breakfast

10/29/2024 Updates to Federal Financial Regulations (2 CFR 200)

10/29/2024 Farm Fresh Challenge Attestation is open now!

10/1/2024 National Farm to School Network's Movement Meeting

9/30/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory and Contract Management

9/27/2024 NSLP: USDA Foods Ordering Updates

9/27/2024 Next LFS Office Hours: October 9th, 2024, 3 – 4pm CST

9/26/2024 Resource: Increasing Breakfast Participation at Middle and High Schools

9/26/2024 USDA Crediting in the Child Nutrition Programs Tip Sheet

9/25/2024 2024 Turnip the Beet

9/25/2024 Arrrgh you Ready for National School Lunch Week 2024?

9/25/2024 Congratulations to our Texas HMI Awardees!

9/25/2024 Verification Report Timeline

9/25/2024 TANS Update

9/25/2024 FSMC New RFP/Contract and Renewal Contract Timeline

9/25/2024 Attachment B Upload

9/24/2024 TDA Launches the 2024 USDA Foods Challenge!

9/23/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory and Contract Management

9/23/2024 Training "By You, For You, With You"

9/23/2024 The Farm Fresh Challenge has begun!

9/10/2024 TDA Launches 2nd Annual USDA Foods Challenge!

9/10/2024 Next LFS Office Hours: September 18th,2024, 3 – 4pm CST

9/10/2024 LFS Fund Usage Survey

9/4/2024 FSMC New RFP/Contract and Renewal Contract Timeline

9/4/2024 Direct Certification in TX-ELMS

9/4/2024 Excess Net Cash Resource Threshold

9/4/2024 FSMC Friday Q&A Sessions

9/4/2024 Attachment B: Meal Counting and Collection Procedure

9/4/2024 Attachment B Upload

9/4/2024 USDA Foods Ordering Updates

9/4/2024 Revised Crediting in the Child Nutrition Programs Tip Sheet Series in English

8/29/2024 RELEASE: Updated Spanish versions of NSLP and SMP Applications and Household Letters

8/28/2024 Back to School Toolkit!

8/27/2024 WBSCM Security Updates and Reminders

8/27/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory and Contract Management

8/27/2024 Processing LBS

8/27/2024 Pledge for the Farm Fresh Challenge now!

8/27/2024 School Year 2024-25 Paid Lunch Equity Tool Walk-Through Recorded Webinar

8/27/2024 Unanticipated School Closure Non-Congregate Flexibilities Approved by USDA

8/27/2024 USDA Foods: Ordering Updates

8/27/2024 New Resource! Reducing Added Sugars at School Breakfast

8/27/2024 Deadline to Apply for Turnip the Beet 2024 is August 30th!

8/27/2024 Ahoy! Set Sail for National School Lunch Week 2024

8/27/2024 Congratulations to our Texas HMI Awardees!

8/26/2024 RELEASE: Revised Letter to Household - Eligibility Determination (SPANISH)

8/26/2024 Plan Your Road Map for Healthier School Meals in 2024-2025

8/26/2024 ICN's 2024 Back to School Toolbox

8/26/2024 School Year 24-25 Administrative and Procurement Review Schedule

8/26/2024 Come work with School Operations

8/26/2024 TANS Update

8/26/2024 USDA Foods Rate of Assistance Published

8/26/2024 SY 2024-2025 Reimbursement Rates for School Nutrition Programs Published

8/12/2024 NSLP PY25 USDA Foods Kickoff

8/8/2024 SY 2024-2025 Special Provisions Carryover Reports

8/8/2024 School Year 2024-25 Paid Lunch Equity Tool Walk-Through Recorded Webinar

8/2/2024 Unanticipated School Closure Non-Congregate Flexibilities Approved by USDA

8/2/2024 NSLP: USDA Foods: Ordering Updates

8/2/2024 New Resource! Reducing Added Sugars at School Breakfast

8/2/2024 NSLP: Deadline to Apply for Turnip the Beet 2024 is August 30th!

8/2/2024 Ahoy! Order No-Cost Materials for National School Lunch Week 2024

8/2/2024 Congratulations to our Texas HMI Awardees!

8/2/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory and Contract Management

8/2/2024 RELEASE: Revised Letter to Household - Eligibility Determination (SPANISH)

8/2/2024 Plan Your Road Map for Healthier School Meals in 2024-2025

8/2/2024 ICN's 2024 Back to School Toolbox

8/1/2024 School Year 24-25 Administrative and Procurement Review Schedule

8/1/2024 Attachment B Upload

8/1/2024 Attachment B: Meal Counting and Claiming Procedures

8/1/2024 Come work with School Operations

8/1/2024 TANS Update

8/1/2024 Get Ready for the Farm Fresh Challenge!

8/1/2024 USDA Foods Rate of Assistance Published

8/1/2024 SY 2024-2025 Reimbursement Rates for School Nutrition Programs Published

7/2/2024 USDA Foods Ordering Updates

7/2/2024 Expansion of Excess Net Cash Resource Threshold for NSLP Operators

7/2/2024 USDA Foods Inventory Management for NSLP

7/2/2024 Interested in Your Students Becoming a MyPlate Ambassador?

7/2/2024 Please Respond to TDA's Farm Fresh Survey 2024!

7/2/2024 New Resources - Vegetable Subgroups!

7/2/2024 Apply for Turnip the Beet 2024!

7/2/2024 Coming Soon: National School Lunch Week 2024!

7/2/2024 Apply for the HMI Recognition Awards!

7/2/2024 Next Office Hours for Local Food for Schools - Sept. 18

7/2/2024 WBSCM Security Updates and Reminders

6/3/2024 Webinar on the Expanded Geographic Preference Option in the Final Rule

6/3/2024 RELEASE: Non-Congregate Service during Extreme Heat/Poor Air Quality Waiver Request Form

6/3/2024 ARM Release Update: May 31, 2024

5/28/2024 RELEASE: New and Updated Summer Non-Congregate FAQs and Forms

5/28/2024 RELEASE: Revised Onsite Food Production Record for the School Nutrition Programs

5/28/2024 Farewell TXUNPS - Welcome TANS

5/1/2024 RELEASE: New Online Form to Request Early Removal from the NDL and TEXSL

5/1/2024 WEBINAR - Final Rule - Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines

5/1/2024 Rural Summer Non-Congregate Request Form and Resources Now Available

4/30/2024 User Administrators to review users in WBSCM by 7/31

4/30/2024 Food Receipting Updates

4/30/2024 Now Available! Child Nutrition Database (CNDB) Release 27

4/30/2024 Extension of Comment Period for Rural Non-Congregate Interim Final Rule

4/30/2024 Expansion of SFSP and SSO Options during Unanticipated School Closure

4/30/2024 "And Justice for All" Poster - Updated Guidance

4/30/2024 USDA Releases Final Rule for School Meals Nutrition Standards - NSLP

4/2/2024 The Child Nutrition Database Release 27 (CN27) is Now Available

4/1/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory Management

4/1/2024 USDA Transitions from eAuth to Login.gov for WBSCM Users

4/1/2024 Upcoming ARM Updates

4/1/2024 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act's Impact on Child Nutrition Programs

3/8/2024 Now available: The Child Nutrition (CN) Labeling Manual

3/7/2024 A new look for the Professional Standards Training Tracker Tool (PSTTT)!

3/6/2024 Summer 2024 Non-Congregate Feeding - Start Preparing Now!

3/6/2024 RELEASE: Proposed Rule for Serious Deficiency Process in SFSP and CACFP

2/16/2024 ACTION REQUIRED – Validation of all Unaffiliated CACFP At-Risk Sites

2/5/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory Management

2/5/2024 Unanticipated School Closure Notification Forms and Guidance

2/5/2024 RELEASE: Updated TDA and USDA CEP Resources

2/5/2024 RELEASE: NEW Duplicative Services FAQs

2/2/2024 RELEASE: SFSP and SSO Rural Non-Congregate Service Regulations

2/2/2024 New features and food yields in the Food Buying Guide Web-Based Tool

2/2/2024 Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Data Report in TX-UNPS

2/2/2024 NSLP-USDA Foods Inventory Management Guidance

1/8/2024 Revised ARM Sections Have Been Posted and Released

1/8/2024 Reminder for all WBSCM recipient agencies

1/8/2024 Reminder: Acceptance of USDA Foods Delivered by State-Contracted Warehouses

1/8/2024 Reminder for all TX-UNPS and WBSCM entities

1/4/2024 FAQs Clarify Duplicative Costs and Multiple Contracts for Same Service

12/4/2023 Important Security Reminders for User Access Managers (UAM) of TX-UNPS

12/4/2023 Updated Team Nutrition Resources for the Child Nutrition Programs

12/4/2023 Updated Guidance on Access to Domesticated and Wild Game Animals

11/29/2023 Farm to School Census

11/14/2023 Important Guidance for And Justice for All Posters

10/24/2023 New Milk Flexibility Available with Emergency Conditions Notification Form for Contracting Entities Experiencing Milk Service Disruption

10/2/2023 Now available: Guide to Professional Standards in Spanish!

10/2/2023 Now Available! New Food Yields Added to the Food Buying Guide

9/28/2023 State Reimbursement for Reduced Price Breakfast - Schools Offering Universal Breakfast

9/28/2023 USDA's Revised Menu Planner for Schools

9/28/2023 Final Rule Reduces CEP ISP Threshold from 40% to 25% for SY 2024-2025

9/28/2023 The verification process begins on October 1, 2023, and the Verification Report is due on November 28, 2023.

9/28/2023 New Verification Letter Sample Templates Suite (English and Spanish)

9/27/2023 Updated Guidance on Meal Service during an Unanticipated School Closure

9/21/2023 Grant Available for NSLP and SBP CEs

8/29/2023 USDA Awards Healthy Meals Incentives Grants Nationwide with 18 Texas Districts Receiving up to $150,000

8/29/2023 Important Information about Health Coverage among Child Nutrition Program Participants

8/25/2023 NEW! Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule

8/1/2023 New Waiver Allowing Non-Congregate Summer Feeding in Extreme Heat

8/1/2023 Now Available! Child Nutrition Database Release 26

8/1/2023 Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Awards for School Food Authorities

9/29/2022 TDA Releases 10 Revised Administrator's Reference Manual Sections

9/28/2022 TDA Submits Waiver Request to Implement Five-Year Administrative Review Cycle

1/12/2022 Maximum Approvable Average Daily Participation (ADP)

7/28/2021 Seamless Summer (SSO) Site Applications SY 2022

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Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. Mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
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