1301 Sumner Avenue
Allentown, PA 18102
Phone: 484-765-4710
Fax: 484-765-4995
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The Allentown School District's Child Nutrition Services offers a variety of services for students and their families. The links on the left-hand side of the page will provide you with more information on the following programs:
The Allentown School District falls under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) – a provision from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that allows schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) with high poverty rates to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students. CEP eliminates the burden of collecting household applications to determine eligibility for school meals. Therefore under CEP, ALL students in the District receive free lunch.
Child Nutrition Services Mission is to provide services as part of the overall physical and mental well-being of each student. Child Nutrition Services understands that good nutrition is essential to a student's health and development. Child Nutrition Services encourages our students to eat nutritious school meals in an effort to enable each student to concentrate and learn.
Our Vision is to provide a variety of services that includes breakfast, lunch, after-school snacks, nutrition education, and other community-related services that provide a vehicle to education about the importance of proper nutrition and its relationship to education. These services will be provided using the most recent research and development in the field of dietetics and child nutrition. Child Nutrition Services is proud to provide services under the guidance of the United States Department of Agriculture. This guidance includes compliance with sanitation and nutritional guidelines.
On October 11, 2018, USDA released Memo SFSP 01-2019, that rescinded a number of national waivers related to the SFSP. The Allentown School District believes the rescission of SFSP 11-2011, which waived the requirement for three hours to elapse between the beginning of one meal service, including snacks, and the beginning of another meal service, except that four hours must elapse between lunch and supper if no snack is served will limit the number of children that can be fed at summer meal sites operated by Allentown School District. This is required public notice that the Allentown School district submitted a request to USDA that would allow only two hours to lapse between the beginning of one meal service and another.
USDA Nondiscrimination Statement
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA.
The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
1. mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. fax: (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
3. email: [email protected]
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
Updated: 5/5/2022