Establishment of Nutritional Breakfast and Lunch Programs

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Education
4. Elementary and Secondary Education
5. Tennessee School Nutrition Standards Act
6. Establishment of Nutritional Breakfast and Lunch Programs

1. Unless a waiver is granted pursuant to § 49-6-2303(10), and only to the extent federal funds are available for free or reduced price meals:
   1. Each school board shall establish a school lunch program in every school under its jurisdiction in accordance with rules and regulations established under § 49-6-2303; and
   2. Each school board shall establish a school breakfast program in the following schools based on the cumulative analysis of school lunch participation for the month of April of the preceding school year:
      1. Every school that contains kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) in which twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the students participated in the school lunch program at a free or reduced price; and
      2. In every school that does not contain a kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) in which forty percent (40%) or more of the students participated in the school lunch program at a free or reduced price.
2. Each LEA operating a school breakfast program pursuant to this part shall be reimbursed by the state for any additional expenses to that agency that are incurred as a result of implementation of this part.
3. The school breakfast program shall automatically terminate if federal funding for such program ceases.

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