{"id":11475,"date":"2019-08-19T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/maryland\/?page_id=11475"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:14:19","slug":"community-eligibility-provision-cep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/maryland\/what-we-do\/community-eligibility-provision-cep\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)<\/h1>\n<p>CEP is a school meal funding option that allows\u00a0 schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students \u2013 essentially becoming <em>Hunger-Free Schools<\/em>. A total of more than 893,000 students in Maryland attend one of 1,404 schools Hunger-Free Schools. For data on CEP schools, go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/programs\/SchoolandCommunityNutrition\/Pages\/CEPData.aspx\">Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students in CEP schools have improved attendance and are nearly <strong>three times less likely to face food insecurity<\/strong>. (Read about the research study of CEP in Maryland, conducted by Johns Hopkins University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/19320248.2019.1679318\">here<\/a>.)\u00a0CEP is also associated with improved test scores, weight outcomes, on-time grade promotion, and disciplinary referrals. 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