Willow Brook Elementary School is pictured above in May 2012. (File photo)
Willow Brook Elementary School has announced a new breakfast and lunch program.
The school is implementing a new option available to select schools in Tennessee that participate in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, an Oak Ridge Schools press release said. It is called the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, and it starts this school year. This is the same program that has allowed breakfast to be offered to all students at no cost.
In a CEP school, all students receive a nutritious breakfast and lunch at no cost, regardless of family income. Willow Brook is currently the only school in the Oak Ridge School District that meets the qualifications for the Community Eligibility Provision, the press release said.
Willow Brook Elementary School receives federal funding through the Title I program. In order to continue meeting the requirements for this funding, Willow Brook Elementary must provide documentation of families’ income information through submission of the Federal Pupil Aid Form (PURPLE FORM). The information provided will help ensure that children continue to have access to the level of resources they currently have at school. It impacts funding that each school receives from the federal and state government, the press release said.
Parents should complete the Federal Pupil Aid form (PURPLE) that was sent in the back-to-school packet and return it to Willow Brook, the release said.
Raymond Charles Kircher says
We freely purchase and transport rockets, military planes, tanks, and bullets to our allies, but people like Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, Chuck Fleischman, Bill Haslam, Randy McNally, John Ragan and many others make grade school children buy their lunches and then walk back and forth without representation and compensation. We have some of the sickest and demented elected officials this country has ever seen.
Philip W Nipper says
Sir, you might want to re-visit the commenting guidelines. Specifically # 2 and #3.
Raymond Charles Kircher says
Mr. Nipper, I have stuck to the guidelines. If these elected stuck to protecting our children they wouldn’t have to walk to school and still pay for their lunch, while they eat and drive for free to the capitol. All those listed in the previous post are more worried about bombing children with debt and government silly unfunded mandates while they hide from the truth. This is the truth, they deny citizen conversation about the issue and won’t face that their spending is why our efforts protect our children fail. It is their fault they wont stick to the issue. Fully fund transportation and meals for all students or get out of office. We citizens are tired of paying for your hellish acts.