(ii) The school regularly conducts an assessment of the alternative
program that provides evidence of success in achieving program objectives; and

(iii) The school submits an annual report of the assessment to the
county board and the State;

(3) (i) The school requests an exemption for reasons of a compelling
nature to the county board; and

(ii) After review and approval, the county board submits the
request for exemption to the State Superintendent; or

(4) (i) The school has less than 15 percent of its enrollment approved
for free and reduced price meals.

(ii) This exemption shall continue from year to year without the
need for reapplication, until there is a 10 percent increase in the number of students
approved for free and reduced price meals.

7-703.

(a) The free and reduced price breakfast program under this subtitle shall be
suspended if the per meal reimbursement that the federal government provides for
the breakfast program is:

(1) Reduced below the rate prescribed on July 1, 1979; or

(2) Adjusted by the Secretary of the United States Department of
Agriculture, as of the most recent July 1 under the national Child Nutrition Act, and
the per meal reimbursement is below the adjusted rate.

(b) The reimbursement for each meal under subsection (a) of this section shall
be determined as follows:

(1) Multiply the number of reduced price breakfasts served statewide
times the federal reimbursement rate for those breakfasts;

(2) Multiply the number of free breakfasts served statewide times the
federal reimbursement rate for those breakfasts; and

(3) Divide the total of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection by the
total number of free and reduced price breakfasts.

7-704.

(A) IN THIS SECTION, " PROGRAM" MEANS THE MARYLAND MEALS FOR
ACHIEVEMENT PILOT IN-CLASSROOM BREAKFAST PROGRAM.

(A) (B) (1) THERE IS A PILOT SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM IN THE
STATE, KNOWN AS THE MARYLAND MEALS FOR ACHIEVEMENT PILOT IN-CLASSROOM
IN CLASSROOM BREAKFAST PROGRAM.