IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING SCHOOL MEALS

 FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 2022-2023

 For the past two years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has offered waivers to Child Nutrition (CN) Programs across the United States, allowing these programs to offer all students breakfast and lunch, at no charge.  These waivers will expire on June 30, 2022.  This means that starting next school year, 2022-2023, the CN programs across the nation will return to normal, pre- pandemic operations.  Families will once again be asked to complete and submit a current school year Free/Reduced Meal Application if they would like to see if their students qualify based on the income of all family members.  In the past years, the first 30 days of the school year carryover status from the previous school year.  Since there were very few meal applications submitted over the past couple of years, there are a few things that parents/guardians can do to ensure their students are ready to start the 2022-23 school year and eliminate the possibility of charges at the start of the school year

1. Complete a 2021-22 meal application before May 26^th, 2022.  This will give the student(s) a 30-day carryover status to start the 2022-23 school year and give families time to complete the new 2022-23 meal application at the start of the school year.
2. Be on the watch for the new 2022-23 meal application to complete as soon as it is made available (sometime after July 1^st) by USDA before the start of the school year.  Doing this will cover the student for the entire 2022-23 school year and no other steps will be necessary unless there is an income change during the school year.

The Carlisle Local School District Food Service Department will provide notification as soon as USDA makes the new 2022-23 meal application available, in order for all families to be able to complete the meal application as soon as possible at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year.  Meal applications can be completed in two ways…

1. Meal applications can be printed from the Food Service webpage on the Carlisle Local Schools website (www.carlisleindians.org), or picked up at the student’s school. These meal applications need to be completed in entirety and returned to the student’s home school.
2. Meal applications can be completed online by going to http://familyportal.cloud

To visit the Carlisle Food Services Department webpage, please do the following…

1. Go to the Carlisle Local School webpage (www.carlisleindians.org)
2. Choose “Departments”, located on the top of the webpage
3. Choose “Food Services” located to the left of the webpage

The Carlisle Food Service Department is committed to assisting families and making this transition back to normal operations as easy as possible.  Please feel free to contact our offices at 937-746-8969, ext. 560

Food Pick-Up Program A Success

During the Covid-19 precautionary closure of all schools in the State of Ohio, Carlisle Local Schools offered a Food Pick-Up program for all of our students through May 21. The program was a big success, and we are very grateful for the staff who gave their time to make this event possible!

Photo by Stephanie Hodge