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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$299,990,834

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARKANSAS

agricultureexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-07-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_226AR321N1199_012
Award description

CNP CN BLOCK PROG

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Provides funding for school breakfast and lunch programs in Arkansas public schools.

Sub-sectors
child-nutrition-programschool-mealsformula-entitlement
Why this matters

Child Nutrition Program serves 30+ million students annually; essential for childhood food security and nutrition.

Supply-chain signal

Generates demand for food products, equipment, and distribution services to Arkansas K-12 schools.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-07-07. Cost: $0.015583.

Period of performance
Start
2021-10-01
End
2022-09-30
Status
expired1382 days ago
Sources

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