December 11 , 2018
On Thursday, December 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its final rule on school meal flexibilities.

SNA has provided comments in response to USDA’s comment request on the Uniform Grant Application Package for Discretionary Grant Programs posted to the Federal Register on October 3, 2018.

SNA has provided comments in response to USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) verification proposed rule published in the Federal Register on October 4, 2018.

The Headquarters’ new address is 2900 S. Quincy Street, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22206.

A new progress report from FNS has found that the national percentage of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-participant children directly certified for free school meals was 92% in both SY 2015-16 and 2016-17, which is up from 91% 2014-15 and 87% in SY 2013-14.

Last week, Congress passed a two-week continuing resolution that will fund some of the departments within the federal government, which were not included in earlier spending bills, through December 21.
The Human Services Committee of the New Jersey State Assembly has approved a bill that will require the state’s chief technology officer to develop and implement an “anti-hunger link” for all state websites. 
Keeping our promise to American’s children—it starts here at #LAC19! Join forces with hundreds of SNA members and other school nutrition advocates in Washington, D.C., to advocate for national policy efforts supporting school nutrition programs and meet directly with legislators. SNA’s 47th LAC takes place February 24-26, 2019, at the Marriott Marquis.
The National Child Nutrition Conference features training and networking opportunities for the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Afterschool Meals and Summer Food Service teams.
SNA will be bringing you all new webinars beginning in January 2019, including two new CEP webinars and one on financial management. Missed a particular webinar? Take advantage of SNA‘s popular live and on-demand webinars.
SNA’s Public Policy and Legislation Committee, SNA leadership and staff meet to draft the 2019 Position Paper
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Tuesday Morning is a weekly Web-based policy and awareness newsletter of the School Nutrition Association. The newsletter provides members with up-to-date federal legislative news as well as a sampling of child nutrition program media coverage. Additionally, state legislative activity is listed.