Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), schools serving
sufficiently high-poverty populations may enroll their entire student
bodies in free lunch and breakfast programs, extending free meals to
some students who would not qualify individually and potentially
decreasing the stigma associated with free meals.
This study examines whether CEP
affects disciplinary outcomes, focusing on the use of suspensions. The authors
use school discipline measures from the Civil Rights Data Collection and
rely on the timing of pilot implementation of CEP across states to
assess how disciplinary infractions evolve within a school as it adopts
CEP.
The results: modest reductions in suspension rates among elementary and
middle but not high school students. The findings suggest that the impact
of school-based child nutrition services extends beyond the academic
gains identified in some of the existing literature.
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