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E‐Rate Discount

Community Eligibility

Provision (CEP)

Community Eligibility Provision

Beginning with FY2015, schools and school districts participating in the Community Eligibility
Provision (CEP) use their approved direct certification percentage to determine their NSLP
percentage.

For each of its individual schools that participate in CEP, a school district will maintain the
correct direct certification percentage (rather than the number of students eligible for NSLP) and
the total student population of the school. The percentage of directly certified students will be
multiplied by the CEP national multiplier (currently 1.6) to calculate the effective number of
students eligible for NSLP. This calculation is capped at 100 percent of the student population
for the purposes of determining the discount.