eScholar DirectMatch™

Improve Your State’s Direct Certification Rate and Participate in Community Eligibility Provision

Ensure That No Child is Hungry

eScholar DirectMatch streamlines and automates the paperwork-intensive and time-consuming process of identifying students eligible for free and reduced-price meals. It provides the most accurate matches for Direct Certification and Community Eligibility Provision to substantially narrow the gap of unfed children.
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DIRECT CERTIFICATION

Achieve a Direct Certification rate of 95% or higher with DirectMatch’s powerful matching engine and flexible matching options. Through an LEA or state-managed processing, enabled users can accurately automatically match, manually match, and resolve potential near matches. Users can match using address data, eScholar Uniq-ID Person data, a file, or manually enter data.

COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY PROVISION

Users can access snapshot data for the indicated location or district and take action through submitting CEP, renewing, creating groups, and easily recalculating ISP. Authorized users will be able to see the total number of students identified, the total number of students enrolled, the district’s ISP, population status, election status, and learn more about population details on counts in programs like Head Start or SNAP.

AUTOMATIC REPORTING

Generate, customize, and submit required USDA reports all within eScholar DirectMatch.

PROGRAMS MATCHED

eScholar can match to any source of data or program where there is a source file that can be indexed including SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, Foster, Migrant, and Homeless data.

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LINKING DATA FOR IMPROVED ANALYSIS, REIMBURSEMENTS, AND BETTER OUTCOMES

Solution Highlight: Matching and Linking

Whether your state is looking to integrate to its ECIDS or calculate program participant and participation rates, with the eScholar Matching and Linking Solution, states can accurately calculate unduplicated counts, link data across agencies and source systems, and maximize eligibility and funding.

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SUSTAINING 100% DIRECT CERTIFICATION AND INCREASING CEP

Customer Highlight: Louisiana Department of Education

The Louisiana Department of Education uses eScholar DirectMatch to streamline and manage the direct certification process statewide. The process is streamlined and efficient, allowing SNAP files to be loaded into DirectMatch monthly. This enables local education agencies and non-public schools to match records multiple times a year. Using DirectMatch’s matching algorithms, Louisiana has sustained a 100% direct certification rate.
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LINKING DATA FOR IMPROVED ANALYSIS, REIMBURSEMENTS, AND BETTER OUTCOMES

Solution Highlight: Matching and Linking

Whether your state is looking to integrate to its ECIDS or calculate program participant and participation rates, with the eScholar Matching and Linking Solution, states can accurately calculate unduplicated counts, link data across agencies and source systems, and maximize eligibility and funding.

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