DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O.
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 35
August 17, 2007
ADMINISTRATIVE
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Federal
Program Monitoring Review of the School Nutrition Programs |
The Code of
Federal Regulations 7, Section 210.18, requires the Department of Education to
conduct an administrative review (CRE) of the federally funded breakfast,
lunch, afterschool snack, and special milk programs in each school division
once every five years. This review is a
comprehensive on-site evaluation designed to assess compliance with
regulations, standards, and state and federal laws. For your information, the
schedule showing when each division will be reviewed during the next five years
is attached (Attachment A).
A more detailed schedule with dates for each review for the school year 2007-2008 also is attached (Attachment B). School divisions scheduled for a review during the 2007-2008 school year are asked to compare the scheduled dates to the division’s calendar. Please advise the School Nutrition Programs Office before September 14, 2007, of any conflicts due to holidays, scheduled breaks, or any dates during the scheduled review week when meals would not be offered to students.
Personnel
from the Virginia Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition Programs
will conduct orientation sessions for divisions scheduled for a CRE review during
the 2007-2008 school year. Each division is asked to send a
representative(s) to one of the sessions.
The representative(s) should have division-wide responsibility for the
school nutrition programs. Identical
orientation sessions will be conducted on September 13, 2007, in
If you have
questions regarding the CRE federal program monitoring or conflicts with the
scheduled review dates, please contact Lynne A. Fellin,
acting director of school nutrition programs, at (804) 225-2074.
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Attachments
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/suptsmemos/2007/adm035a.pdf
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/suptsmemos/2007/adm035b.pdf