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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$193,520,558

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARKANSAS

agricultureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_266AR321N1099_012
Award description

CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED

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

Funds Arkansas school lunch and breakfast programs through USDA's Child Nutrition Program block grants for fiscal year 2026.

Sub-sectors
child-nutritionschool-lunch-programsformula-grant
Why this matters

Ensures federal nutrition support reaches low-income students; represents ongoing entitlement funding critical to child food security.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, meal-service contractors, and kitchen equipment vendors serving Arkansas schools.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-22. Cost: $0.002767.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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